Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA, (March 27, 2018) — Fox Chase Cancer Center will present its signature fundraising event In Vino Vita Benefit and Wine Auction on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at Vie in Center City More than 500 leaders from the fields of healthcare, business, and philanthropy attended the 2017 event.

PHILADELPHIA (March 21, 2018) — Eileen K. Jaffe, PhD, has earned a renewal of her research grant from the National PKU Alliance. Jaffe’s lab collaboratively applies molecular biology, biochemistry, and various biophysical techniques to seek ways to repair certain dysfunctional enzymes.  

PHILADELPHIA ( [Anchor] March 20, 2018) – The Journal of Clinical Investigation recently published a scientific article describing ONC201’s ability to cause intratumoral accumulation and activation of natural killer (NK) and CD3+ T cells in mouse models and patients. The research is from the laboratory of Wafik El-Deiry MD, PhD, FACP, Scientific Founder of Oncoceutics, and Deputy Cancer Center Director for Translational Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center.

PHILADELPHIA (March 13, 2018) - Dr. Engstrom will receive the award at the Foundation’s 2018 Dialogue for Action Conference in Tysons, Virginia on April 12, 2018.

PHILADELPHIA (March 13, 2018) — Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce its continuing support for the Colon Cancer Coalition’s Annual Get Your Rear in Gear run/walk. Faculty, staff, volunteers, patients, survivors, and their families will come together as members of the Fox Chase team on Saturday, March 24, 2018.

PHILADELPHIA (March 9, 2018) – Bellerjeau received the award on February 22 at the ASBMT annual Tandem Meetings in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has spent more than 20 years at Fox Chase -Temple, and is a longtime member of the Oncology Nursing Society and the ASBMT

PHILADELPHIA (March 1, 2018) – One third of men with lymph node-positive penile cancer don’t receive a lymph node dissection, the recommended care associated with an overall survival advantage, researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center have found.

PHILADELPHIA (March 1, 2018) – March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and Fox Chase Cancer Center encourages individuals to get a colorectal cancer screening. “Regular screening continues to be the best defense against colorectal cancer. It can detect pre-cancerous growths as well as cancer, which is highly treatable if caught early,” said David Weinberg, MD, chair of medicine and chief of the gastroenterology section at Fox Chase Cancer Center.