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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 ...
Center News & Funding, Research, Prevention & Control
Aug 18, 2023
Breast, colorectal and lung cancers are significant public health burdens in the U.S., accounting for more than 688,000 newly-diagnosed cancers in 2023, with significant racial and ethnic disparities in disease incidence and mortality, according to the American Cancer Society. While previous researc...
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...
Diet & Nutrition, Prevention & Control
Jun 29, 2023
Steak, barbecue, hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken. What do all of these meats have in common? They all taste best when they’re touched by the sizzling flames of a grill on a hot summer day. Many would describe the meats listed as being full of flavor, but recent research suggests that they also have...
Center News & Funding, Prevention & Control
Jun 16, 2023
O’Conor “Conor” Ashby II is committed to fighting cancer in memory of his father. As the nation celebrates and honors dads for giving so much of themselves this Father’s Day, we also remember those lost. Conor Ashby was just 11 years old when he lost his father to lung cancer. James Ashby III was an...
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, Prevention & Control
May 03, 2023
May is Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month. With summer around the corner, there’s no better time to learn how to protect your body’s largest organ. We spoke with Kimberly Salkey, M.D., dermatologist at VCU Massey Cancer Center, to get the lowdown on skin cancer risk, screening and prevention –...
Clinical, Research, Prevention & Control
Apr 24, 2023
Head and neck cancers usually start in the squamous cells lining the mucosal surfaces of the mouth, nose, throat, voice box and salivary glands. “While head and neck cancers make up only about 5% of cancers, they can be particularly devastating because they can affect speaking, swallowing, breathing...
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...
Prevention & Control, Research, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Mar 13, 2023
Three local cancer survivors join Women and Wellness keynote speaker Bershan Shaw to share their stories of survivorship According to the American Association for Cancer Research, 40% of all cancers and 50% of cancer deaths may be preventable. Thanks to advances in cancer research, prevention and ea...
Prevention & Control, Clinical
Mar 02, 2023
Colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the United States, and while overall incidence rates have dropped in the last few decades, they are rising among people younger than 55, according to the American Cancer Society. This trend is concerning to experts, particularly bec...
Research, Clinical, Prevention & Control, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Feb 21, 2023
In early February, on the anniversary of the revived Cancer Moonshot, the Biden administration announced new initiatives to improve cancer care and prevention. At Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address, he reemphasized the Moonshot’s goal of cutting cancer death rates by at least 50% in the next 25...
Research, Clinical, Prevention & Control
Feb 20, 2023
Advances in care are leading to better outcomes for cancer patients, but some cancer treatments can lead to negative impacts on the heart and cardiovascular system, including high blood pressure, irregular heartbeats, heart disease and heart failure. For many cancer patients who have completed treat...
Research, Center News & Funding, Prevention & Control, Clinical
Sep 23, 2022
VCU Massey Cancer Center recently awarded a total of $200,000 to five early-career cancer researchers through its Institutional Research Grant (IRG) from the American Cancer Society (ACS) – a program that has been providing seed money to junior investigators at the university for nearly 50 years. T...
Center News & Funding, Research, Clinical, Prevention & Control
Sep 13, 2022
A project led by Virginia Commonwealth University researchers and funded last month by the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, aims to reduce racial cancer disparities in the United States by studying what happens during the genetic counseling process that results i...
Prevention & Control
Aug 25, 2022
David P. Turner, Ph.D., has always loved dogs. One of the newer members of the Massey Cancer Center research team in the Cancer Prevention and Control research program, Turner’s primary research focus is examining the negative links between advanced glycation end products (A.G.E.s) and human health....
Research, Center News & Funding, Prevention & Control
Jul 13, 2022
A 5-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) — part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — will enable researchers from VCU Massey Cancer Center, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Comprehensive Cancer Center and Duke Cancer Institute to ...
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.