Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (May 12, 2023)—As the enzyme telomerase is being formed within cells, it dwells within a specific cell compartment. Scientists have long thought that these compartments served as a kind of greenhouse, cradling the enzyme’s maturation and function. Now a new study from researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center has found that they can also act as prisons.

PHILADELPHIA (May 12, 2023)—Immunotherapy has become a powerful tool to fight many cancers, but it still only works in some patients and researchers are looking for new options to help patients who become resistant.

PHILADELPHIA (May 11, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Jeffrey Farma, MD, FACS, chief of the Division of General Surgery, was recently awarded the 40th Michael E. DeBakey International Military Surgeon’s Award at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

PHILADELPHIA (May 11, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health welcomed State Representative Kevin Boyle and State Senators Jimmy Dillon and Christine Tartaglione to the Fox Chase campus today to thank them for their support in securing $1.5 million in funding for the modernization of Fox Chase research facilities.

PHILADELPHIA (May 10, 2023)—Jeffrey Farma, MD, FACS, chief of the Division of General Surgery at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently elected recorder for the Executive Council for the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery.

PHILADELPHIA (May 10, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center has begun offering cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT)-based adaptive radiation therapy, a technique that allows a patient’s radiation treatment to be adjusted in real time to accommodate changes in the body such as tumor shrinkage and/or the position of the adjacent normal organs.

PHILADELPHIA (May 4, 2023)—In a ceremony honoring faculty today at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Anna Marie Skalka, PhD, Senior Advisor to the President and Professor Emerita, was recognized with the Stanley P. Reimann Honor Award, the center’s highest distinction.

PHILADELPHIA (May 2, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Abigail T. Berman, MD, MSCE, as an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology. Berman will focus on caring for patients with thoracic and gastrointestinal cancers.