LITTLE ROCK – Two northwest Arkansas organizations were presented grants totaling $26,000 from the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Auxiliary at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).

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Cycling Ride for America’s First Cancer Center Up 25% in Ridership and 21% in Donations.

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Cycling Ride for America’s First Cancer Center Up 25% in Ridership and 21% in Donations Expects to Hit $2.5 Million This Saturday

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Nearly 200 guests including cancer survivors, their families and supporters gathered for the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute’s 5th Annual Survivorship University Celebration of Survivorship, Thursday, June 18. The celebration recognized cancer survivors and others who raise awareness of cancer prevention and help empower lives. This year’s event theme was Music as Medicine. Radio personality Sandy Kovach, public affairs director for V98.7 Smooth Jazz and 104.3 WOMC, served as emcee. Deforia Lane, Ph.D., renowned music therapist, author and two-time breast cancer survivor, was the keynote speaker. Dr. Lane spoke about the impact music has on cancer survivors, bringing comfort and hope to those facing an illness. Read the rest of this entry »

June 23, 2009 | While about 300 physician researchers recently submitted their work for recognition to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), it was a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) doctor who rose to the top.

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New Finding May Lead to Drugs That Lower the Risk of Relapse in Some Leukemia Patients 

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Aggressive, deadly and often misdiagnosed, inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is the most lethal form of primary breast cancer, often striking women in their prime and causing death within 18 to 24 months. Now, scientists from The Cancer Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center have identified a key gene-eIF4G1-that is overexpressed in the majority of cases of IBC, allowing cells to form highly mobile clusters that are responsible for the rapid metastasis that makes IBC such an effective killer.

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The Michigan Tobacco Quitline has been reopened by the Michigan Department of Community Health after a temporary shutdown. The tobacco quitline offers free telephone counseling as well as patches, gum, or lozenges to people interested in quitting smoking or chewing tobacco use. If interested, please contact 1-800-480-QUIT or visit www.michigan.gov/tobacco. Read the rest of this entry »

PITTSBURGH, PA and JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, June 15, 2009 – The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and the Gamida Cell – Teva Joint Venture announced today that the Institute has joined an elite group of cancer centers in Europe, the United States and Israel that are now enrolling patients to participate in the ExCell research study.

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PITTSBURGH, June 15, 2009 – A new technique known as stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is safe for patients with recurrent head and neck cancers and may improve their quality of life, according to researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI). Results of the phase I study were reported today in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.

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