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Earlier this month marked a homecoming of sorts for Chera Dunn. Away for 19 years, she returned Jan. 12 to her professional roots in mammography at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University…

More than 100 cancer patients have received an innovative form of radiation therapy at the S. Lee Kling Center for Proton Therapy in the center’s first year of operation. The treatments, which utilize the world’s…

The Cancer Care Clinic at Siteman Cancer Center now provides 24-hour, seven-day-a-week service for Siteman patients in need of urgent care. Accessible through the Center for Advanced Medicine at 4921 Parkview Place, the Cancer Care…

Researchers have designed a nanoparticle-based therapy that is effective in treating mice with multiple myeloma, a cancer of immune cells in the bone marrow. Targeted specifically to the malignant cells, these nanoparticles protect their therapeutic cargo…

Smokers with a specific genetic variation are more likely to keep smoking longer than those who don’t have the gene variant, new research indicates. They’re also more likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer at…

Personalized melanoma vaccines can be used to marshal a powerful immune response against unique mutations in patients’ tumors, according to early data in a first-in-people clinical trial at Washington University School of Medicine in St….

Elaine Mardis, PhD, the Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Medicine, has been elected to the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Mardis, a professor of molecular…