Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (March 22, 2023)—An ongoing challenge of cancer treatment is finding a way to use powerful chemotherapies to attack tumor cells while minimizing toxic side effects. A recent study by researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University has demonstrated a potential new way to avoid this problem by using nanoengineered stem cells as a drug delivery system.

PHILADELPHIA (March 15, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health are pleased to announce the hiring of Claire L. Streibert, MD, as site chief of breast imaging.

Temple Health, Fox Chase Cancer Center, and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University welcomed Senators Art Haywood, Jimmy Dillon, Sharif Street, and Christine Tartaglione to a press conference and roundtable discussion this February at Fox Chase to thank them for their efforts in securing $1.1 million for four Mobile Health Units.

PHILADELPHIA (March 10, 2023)—Dong “Jake” Kim, MD, a second-year hematology/oncology fellow at Fox Chase Cancer Center, recently received a 2023 Conquer Cancer Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for research that he presented at a recent meeting.

PHILADELPHIA (March 2, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Cancer Epigenetics Institute (CEI) is holding its third annual Cancer Epigenetics Symposium at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia today, an annual event that brings research leaders together to explore the latest discoveries, from the lab bench to the bedside, in the field.

PHILADELPHIA (February 23, 2023)—Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is the most common type of pancreatic cancer, and, as the seventh leading cause of cancer death in the world, it is both aggressive and lethal.

PHILADELPHIA (February 23, 2023)—Immunotherapy—using the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells—has become a powerful cancer-fighting tool. But, for reasons that are unclear, tumors evade immune cells, making them resistant to these therapies.

PHILADELPHIA (February 22, 2023)—The Fox Chase Cancer Center Biosample Repository Facility was recently awarded accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP) based on results of a recent on-site inspection.