Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (May 10, 2019) — Joshua Meyer, MD, recently received a two-year, $125,000 Chris4Life Grant from the Colorectal Cancer Alliance for a study on genomic alterations central to the development of colorectal cancer in younger adults.

PHILADELPHIA (May 9, 2019) – May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month. As you spend more time outdoors this season, it’s important to familiarize yourself with the early signs of skin cancer and learn how you can protect your skin from the sun’s damaging rays.

PHILADELPHIA (May 6, 2019) – Fox Chase Cancer Center will be the first cancer center in Philadelphia, along with other top cancer institutions in the US, to offer the PAXMAN Scalp Cooling System, a groundbreaking intervention that reduces hair loss caused by chemotherapy.

PHILADELPHIA (May 2, 2019) – Fox Chase Cancer Center has earned a 2019 HAP Achievement Award from The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) for outstanding effort to enhance processes for managing patient discharge planning and care transitions.

PHILADELPHIA (April 29, 2019) — Using next-generation sequencing (NGS) based RNA-sequencing, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center found a fusion gene signature in primary tracheobronchial adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare lung tumor. This study is the first time the MYB/MYBL1 fusion genes have been systemically investigated for this cancer type.

Philadelphia Magazine named forty-seven Fox Chase Cancer Center physicians to their “Top Doctors” list for 2019. 

PHILADELPHIA (April 22, 2019) – Christoph Seeger, PhD, professor and senior scientist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, is the recipient of the Hepatitis B Foundation’s 2019 Baruch S. Blumberg Prize for excellence in hepatitis B research.

PHILADELPHIA (April 16, 2019) – A new book by Anna Marie Skalka, PhD, professor emerita at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere, has been published by Harvard University Press.