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Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Sep 22, 2023
Update as of September 22, 2023: With the forecasted inclement weather, and in the interest of safety, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center has decided to postpone the Comprehensive Carnival scheduled for Saturday, September 23, 2023, at the Stuart C. Siegel Center. The safety and well-being of ...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Sep 19, 2023
George Emerson looked Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R-Va.) directly in the eye when he shared why he chose to continue his support of VCU Massey Cancer Center after receiving his treatment for squamous cell carcinoma of the throat in December 2005. “We are Virginia's cancer center,” stated Emerson, ...
Community Engagement & Health Equity, Center News & Funding, Prevention & Control
Aug 25, 2023
VCU Massey Cancer Center’s Facts & Faith Fridays session on Aug. 18 offered participants valuable information regarding melanoma prevention and detection, and highlighted the efforts of a local nonprofit organization in helping Black students achieve success in higher education. Joining the call to ...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Prevention & Control, Clinical
Aug 22, 2023
Competitive swimming is an individual sport, George Sushkoff says. But to win, it requires teamwork and collaboration. Like fighting cancer. On Saturday, Aug. 26, Sushkoff, a lifelong competitive swimmer and cancer survivor, will participate in the fifth annual Swim Across America Richmond event, a ...
Community Engagement & Health Equity
Aug 16, 2023
VCU Massey Cancer Center is hosting its second year of Massey Dialogues, a series that aims to promote open and honest conversations about social identity. During four sessions between August and November, participants will read and discuss the VCU Common Book, “Seek You: A Journey Through American ...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Aug 15, 2023
Health district directors and leaders from the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) across all 35 health districts gathered at Virginia Commonwealth University's medical campus for an inaugural summit with a dedicated focus on cancer. Facilitated by the Catchment Area Data Access and Alignment office...
Community Engagement & Health Equity, Center News & Funding
Jul 25, 2023
On July 21, VCU Massey Cancer Center’s Facts & Faith Fridays call highlighted the need for preventive strategies, routine screenings and effective communication to successfully reduce the burden of cancer and other disease. Additionally, this session featured multiple guests from different academic ...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Clinical, Prevention & Control
Jul 18, 2023
VCU Massey Cancer Center is stepping up its global cancer initiatives with the appointment of Khalid Matin, M.D., FACP, to the position of associate director for Global Oncology. Matin, a professor of medicine at VCU School of Medicine and medical oncologist at Massey, will now be responsible for dr...
Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research, Clinical
Jul 03, 2023
This article was first published on the Alliance for Equity in Cancer Care's newsroom. Robert A. Winn, M.D. is the director and Lipman Chair in Oncology at VCU Massey Cancer Center and co-director of the Alliance for Equity in Cancer Care, in which Massey serves as the National Program Office. Winn ...
Community Engagement & Health Equity, Center News & Funding, Clinical
Jun 23, 2023
Heads nodded with understanding as Vanessa Spurlock recited a poem she wrote about ascending the mountain of cancer. “I used to be Just Me. I thought alive, bold and free. A journey unprepared, But one that allowed me to see the real me.” Spurlock, who was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma ...
Community Engagement & Health Equity, Center News & Funding
Jun 22, 2023
VCU Massey Cancer Center’s Facts & Faith Fridays this month covered statistics and public health messaging regarding an unusual uptick in viral infections in 2023, as well as the health benefits and restorative power of effective rest. Elaine Perry, M.D., health director of the Virginia Department o...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research, Prevention & Control, Clinical, Adult Outpatient Pavilion, Diet & Nutrition, Technology
Jun 09, 2023
Leaders from Virginia Commonwealth University and across the commonwealth came together to celebrate VCU Massey Cancer Center’s comprehensive designation from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on Thursday, June 8. Robert A. Winn, M.D., Massey director and Lipman Chair in Oncology, was joined by ...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research, Prevention & Control
Jun 08, 2023
VCU Massey Cancer Center recently joined the ranks of an elite group of cancer centers across the United States after receiving its designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the nation’s principal authority on cancer research and training. This recognition ...
Research, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Center News & Funding, Prevention & Control
Jun 05, 2023
Luis Salazar’s cancer journey began when he was 28 years old and a ten-year veteran of the fire service. “I was first diagnosed at the end of 2018, early 2019, with testicular cancer,” Salazar recalled. “I had surgery and a few rounds of chemotherapy. Eighteen months later, they found a tumor on the...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research
Jun 01, 2023
VCU Massey Cancer Center has been designated a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the nation’s principal authority on cancer research and training. Massey’s receipt of the highest level of recognition from the NCI places it among an elite group of cancer centers infl...
Community Engagement & Health Equity, Center News & Funding
May 26, 2023
VCU Massey Cancer Center’s Facts & Faith Fridays this month highlighted two unique partnerships between VCU Health and the Richmond-area community: a camp to encourage school-age children to explore careers in health care, and another initiative to screen and monitor blood pressure at Richmond Publi...
Community Engagement & Health Equity
Apr 27, 2023
Participants in this month’s Facts & Faith Fridays left the meeting better informed on a range of subjects, from multiple myeloma to artwork from local artists soon to be seen on mobile health vans in underserved Virginia communities. Joseph Mikhael, M.D., chief medical officer of the International ...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Prevention & Control
Apr 20, 2023
VCU Massey Cancer Center and Dominion Energy are teaming up to deploy two mobile health units that will provide critical cancer education and outreach to the public within traditionally underserved communities in central and southern Virginia. Artwork for the vans was designed by two Richmond-area s...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Clinical
Apr 14, 2023
The Alliance for Equity in Cancer Care held its inaugural in-person meeting on March 22-23 in Richmond, Va. The Alliance is a national multi-site initiative funded by a $20 million commitment from the Merck Foundation to advance health equity by improving access to high-quality culturally responsibl...
Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research
Apr 10, 2023
Health equity panel discussion recommends researchers and doctors address long standing historical wrongs when talking to patients about joining clinical trials The often inhumane treatment of Black and Brown people in the United States, some of whom were enslaved, during experiments and clinic...
Treatments in clinical trials may be more effective or have fewer side effects than the treatments that are currently available. With more than 200 studies for multiple types of cancers and cancer prevention, Massey supports a wide array of clinical trials.
Massey supports hundreds of top cancer specialists serving the needs of our patients. Massey’s medical team provides a wealth of expertise in cancer diagnosis, treatment, prevention and symptom management.