Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (November 11, 2019) – The leadership of the AACR Tumor Microenvironment Working Group has appointed Fox Chase Cancer Center Associate Professor Sergei Grivennikov, PhD, to its Steering Committee.

PHILADELPHIA (November 8, 2019) – Mindfulness, the ability to keep the mind focused on the present moment, was associated with less pain, fatigue, anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbance in women with metastatic breast cancer, according to new research.

PHILADELPHIA (November 6, 2019) – Men who had higher income and health literacy levels had more confidence and fewer practical concerns re-entering normal life following treatment for prostate cancer, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center found.

PHILADELPHIA (November 4, 2019) – November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness month. While no screening tests have been shown to lower risk, there are newer tests for detecting pancreatic cancer early that can benefit individuals who are at high risk.

PHILADELPHIA (November 4, 2019) – Underserved women were more tempted to smoke after giving birth if they had multiple children and more stress, according to a study conducted at Fox Chase Cancer Center.

PHILADELPHIA (October 29, 2019) – Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers have determined that RNA-based next generation sequencing picks up gene fusions in sarcoma tumors that traditional gene testing may not.

SALT LAKE CITY (October 28, 2019) – On November 4,  Michael J Hall, MD, MS, will host a teleconference at the 2019 CGA-IGC Annual Meeting on advances in GI cancer genetics.

PHILADELPHIA (October 22, 2019) – Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center say a new, more accurate genomic sequencing classifier allows patients to avoid one in five surgeries for thyroid cancer because it more accurately classifies samples taken from thyroid nodules compared to earlier versions of the technology.