Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (June 6, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of David Loren, MD, FASGE, as professor of medicine and chief of the Section of Gastroenterology in the Department of Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA (June 2, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health researchers will participate in the presentation and discussion of 10 research projects at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, which is being held June 2-6 in Chicago. An asterisk (*) indicates that the author is the main presenter.

PHILADELPHIA (June 2, 2023)—Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, Deputy Director and professor in the Department of Hematology/Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been appointed Treasurer of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

PHILADELPHIA (June 1, 2023) — Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have utilized banked computed tomography (CT) to evaluate alternate response criteria for early prediction of outcomes in rare pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).

PHILADELPHIA (May 31, 2023)—Cystic renal masses are a common type of kidney lesion that are generally considered to be low-risk and unlikely to spread beyond the kidney. Now a new study from Fox Chase Cancer Center that was featured on the cover of the Journal of Urology, published by Wolters Kluwer sheds more light on these lesions.

PHILADELPHIA (May 30, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center has been accredited by the Smoking Treatment Accreditation & Recognition (STAR) program, a tobacco treatment initiative funded through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

PHILADELPHIA (May 30, 2023)—Patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who receive fewer than three cycles of chemotherapy prior to bladder removal surgery face higher risk of recurrence and worse survival outcomes. That’s according to research from Temple Health and Fox Chase Cancer Center that will be presented at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA (May 26, 2023) — Management of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a rapidly evolving field, so choosing between the growing number of effective, available therapies can be challenging for both physicians and patients.