ATLANTA - Shishir K. Maithel, MD, has joined Emory's Department of Surgical Oncology and the Emory Winship Cancer Institute as assistant professor of surgical oncology.  He specializes in gastrointestinal oncology, with an emphasis in liver, biliary, and pancreatic surgery. 

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ATLANTA - Doctors at Winship Cancer Institute are testing an anti-cancer drug that exploits the vulnerabilities of particularly hard-to-treat tumors.

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ATLANTA - Emory University Hospital through its Department of Radiation Oncology has earned provisional full membership in the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG). 

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BUFFALO, NY - Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has appointed three new faculty members to the Department of Medicine.

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BUFFALO, NY – Celebrate this Labor Day with a “labor of love” and donate much-needed blood or platelets at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). Your donation today will help to save a life tomorrow. Many cancer patients require blood and platelet transfusions as part of their care. RPCI is seeking blood donors willing to take the time to donate platelets to meet an ever-increasing need.

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Andre Konski, M.D., M.B.A., M.A.

Cancer patients who are separated from their spouses at the time of their diagnosis do not live as long as widowed, divorced and never married patients, according to a new study to be published in CA, the journal of the American Cancer Society. Read the rest of this entry »

DETROIT, MI – Everyone can help save a life by taking a simple test to register as a potential bone marrow donor. Read the rest of this entry »

Ann G. Schwartz, Ph.D. Interim President and Chief Executive Officer Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute MONROE, MI – Two hospital systems and one comprehensive cancer center are joining forces to bring world-renowned cancer services to Monroe, Michigan. Mercy Memorial Hospital System of Monroe (MMHS), ProMedica Health System of Toledo, and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center in Detroit have announced a joint venture agreement which will bring innovative, state-of-the-science cancer care to Monroe and the surrounding communities. Each of the health institutions will be equal partners in the joint venture. The agreement, forming the company Monroe Cancer Center, LLC, was recently approved by each organization’s executive leadership. A groundbreaking for the new cancer center is expected to take place by early 2010. The official name of the new center has not yet been determined. Read the rest of this entry »

DETROIT, MI – On Sept. 2, Dany Mercado of Kitchener, Ontario, along with family and friends, returned to the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center, in Detroit, where he had received a successful bone marrow transplant a year-and-a-half earlier. The gathering was not a follow-up doctor’s appointment. It was the first time Mercado, age 26, met his hero – Wesley Hamilton, M.D., age 30, of Abilene, Texas – Mercado’s bone marrow donor. The special meeting was coordinated by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center and the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP).

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