Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (March 1, 2013) - Temple is celebrating the 25-year anniversary of the first bone marrow transplant performed as part of the Temple Bone Marrow Transplant Program. The program's first transplant was performed by its founding Director, Dr. Kenneth F. Mangan, on February 29, 1988. Since then, Temple has performed more than 1,400 transplants

PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 27, 2013)—Two proteins that scientists once thought carried out the same functions are actually antagonists of each other, and keeping them in balance is key to preventing diseases such as cancer, according to new findings published in the February 25 issue of Developmental Cell by scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center. The results suggest that new compounds could fight cancer by targeting the pathways responsible for maintaining the proper balance between the proteins.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 22, 2013)—Concord Medical Services Holdings Limited recently celebrated the opening of the American Fox Chase (Xi’An) Cancer Center at its subsidiary Chang'an Hospital in Xi’An, China.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 21, 2013)—Carol and Louis E. Della Penna Sr. of New Hope, PA, have made a $4 million commitment to Fox Chase Cancer Center establishing the Carol and Louis Della Penna Chair in Urologic Oncology and the Louis Della Penna Family Chair in Head and Neck Oncology.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 11, 2013)—Eighty-three (83) Temple physicians have been named to the Best Doctors in America^® list for 2013.  Only five percent of doctors in America earn a spot on the prestigious list compiled and published by Best Doctors, Inc.^®  The physicians on this year’s list practice at Temple University Hospital, Temple University Hospital-Episcopal Campus, Jeanes Hospital, and Fox Chase Cancer Center.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 11, 2013)—Online registration is now available for a one-day, no-cost symposium at Fox Chase Cancer Center for high school students to learn about potential careers in medicine, nursing, science, information technology, and business administration. The Health Careers Symposium will take place on Saturday, March 23, from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. in the Fox Chase auditorium (333 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia).

Doylestown, PA (January 31, 2013)—The Bucks County Chapter of Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Board of Associates—a group of volunteers who support patient care and cancer research at Fox Chase—will be hosting an elegant gala called “April in Vienna” on April 20, 2013 at Spring Mill Manor (171 Jacksonville Road, Ivyland, PA).

PHILADELPHIA (January 14, 2013)—Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Office of Health Communications and Health Disparities (OHCHD) recently received a grant from the National Breast Cancer Foundation to fund community-based patient navigation services. The one year grant will allow the OHCHD to expand its current navigation program for women who are screened for breast cancer on Fox Chase’s mobile mammography van and receive abnormal results. The vitally needed navigators will help those women obtain follow-up services at Fox Chase (or elsewhere if desired).