Siteman Cancer Center opened its first treatment facility in Illinois on Aug. 1. The Swansea, Ill., facility marks Siteman’s sixth location overall. The treatment center offers convenient access to nationally recognized cancer care, including clinical…
Cancer patients in Missouri, Southern Illinois and beyond will have access to a new generation of proton therapy in early 2020. Known as pencil-beam scanning, the technology delivers extremely precise treatments of proton therapy, a…
Childhood and adolescent cancer survival in the United States does not vary by rural/urban residence at the time of diagnosis, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. “The…
Radiation therapy for different kinds of cancer can damage the skin, so patients undergoing such treatment often are advised to apply creams or ointments to help relieve any resulting pain and inflammation. However, such patients…
Women who are overweight or obese have up to twice the risk of developing colorectal cancer before age 50 as women who have what is considered a normal body mass index (BMI), according to new…
Courtney Beers, MPH, joined Siteman Cancer Center as director of research operations October 8, 2018. She oversees Siteman’s research administration team; research resources shared by Washington University scientists at Siteman; and administrative support for Siteman’s…
Gary Patti, PhD, the Michael and Tana Powell Associate Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded $4.8 million in two separate National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD, a noted physician-scientist and the surgical director of lung transplantation at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, has been named the inaugural G. Alexander Patterson, MD/Mid-America Transplant…
Radiation oncologist Carl J. DeSelm, MD, PhD, has been honored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his visionary research to harness the immune system to fight cancer. DeSelm, an assistant professor of radiation oncology,…
A DNA-based analysis of blood cells soon after a stem cell transplant can predict likelihood of disease recurrence in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a group of cancerous disorders characterized by dysfunctional blood cells, according…
A person’s brainstem controls some of the body’s most important functions, including heart beat, respiration, blood pressure and swallowing. Tumor growth in this part of the brain is therefore twice as devastating. Not only can…