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Terrance Afer-Anderson wants to create an army of ambassadors. The Norfolk native and prostate cancer survivor wrote, produced and directed a movie, “The Black Walnut,” to bring attention to inequities in screening and mortality rates for prostate cancer in the Black community. “I tell men scared of the invasiveness of a prostate cancer screening, ‘You have to toughen up,’” Afer-Anderson said on

Navigating the daunting landscape of childhood cancer is getting easier for patients and families thanks to the work of the OCTRI Health Experiences Research Network (HERN) and former OCTRI TL1 scholar Kellee Parker, DO. The OCTRI HERN team conducted 40 interviews with families of childhood cancer survivors to gain insight into the experience childhood cancer. Findings from these interviews

The University of Wisconsin-Madison announces the launch of an innovative new resource for understanding how patients with inherited cancer risk are experiencing the emerging science of genetic medicine. Cancer Risk That Runs in Families is the latest in a series of collaborative studies conducted by the members of the Health Experiences Research Network. HERN is a network of researchers from UW

Jennifer Moss, Ph.D., an assistant professor of family and community medicine at Penn State College of Medicine, recently published research about the cancer screening rates of older Americans. She reported that many older Americans are receiving cancer screenings past recommended ages – a situation called overscreening. This study was partially supported by Penn State Clinical and Translational

Trying to manage funding a lab while running a lab can be challenging for even the most experienced investigator. For Hong Chen, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and of radiation oncology at the School of Medicine, the ICTS provided invaluable assistance on her path to fund research on using ultrasound to

Older Americans may be receiving cancer screenings not recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. The task force recommends routine screening for colorectal, cervical and breast cancers. These recommendations end for people at upper ages or who develop a condition that decreases their life expectancy. A routine screening above

LITTLE ROCK — A national database for patient cancer images at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will become the storage site for COVID-19 clinical images from across the United States and around the globe, including chest x-rays and CT scans of the body. This week, UAMS also became the first research institution to contribute de-identified images of COVID-19 to the storage

Pennsylvania adolescents and young adults are less likely to receive cancer treatment at a specialized treatment center than pediatric patients, according to a team of Penn State and Penn State Cancer Institute researchers. Specialized centers provide access to clinical trials, psychological and social support services and other medical approaches. These are all critical to the comprehensive care

With support from the Virginia Commonwealth University C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research, scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have identified key biological pathways that regulate the spread of tumor cells to vital organs. These findings may have a significant influence on the development of new therapies that slow or prevent breast cancer metastasis.

Melanoma, a relatively rare but deadly skin cancer, has been shown to switch differentiation states -- that is, to regress to an earlier stage of development -- which can lead it to become resistant to treatment. Now, UCLA researchers led by Dr. Thomas Graeber have found that melanomas can be divided into four distinct subtypes according to their stages of differentiation. Cell subtypes that de