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Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital uphold the most rigorous standards in every aspect of transplantation and cellular therapy – from clinical care to donor management, cell collection, processing, storage, transportation, administration, and cell release. There are currently 310 FACT-accredited institutions worldwide.

Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, and Lisa Fucito, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, are co-authors of a commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine that proposes health care professionals and policy makers focus on developing targeted and tailored interventions to address e-cigarette use.

These are the types of studies that will help to get to the bottom of this issue. Yale Cancer Center director and president and physician-in-chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital, Dr. Eric Winer, says many people think these cancer mortality rates among African-Americans are related to genetics. "I personally think that it's probably much more related to social reasons, socioeconomic factors, and racism in our country." He says it also comes down to the access that this racial group has to receiving the care that they need.

In this interview, David Braun, MD, PhD, and Patrick Kenney, MD, describe their practices and touch on unmet needs in kidney cancer treatment. Braun is an assistant professor of medicine (medical oncology) and of pathology and urology at Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut as well as a Yale Cancer Center member. Kenney is an associate professor of urology at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut and medical director of Smilow Cancer Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut.

This work “appears promising,” said Harry Aslanian, MD, gastroenterologist and pancreatic cancer expert at Yale Cancer Center, who wasn’t involved with the study. Combining the markers found in exosomes and in the blood allows the test to get a fuller “fingerprint” of the cancer, he said.

Bohdan Pomahac, MD, has performed the most face transplants in the world.

Prasanna Ananth, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine, was named an Emerging Leaders in Hospice and Palliative Care by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).

Laura Morrison, MD, FAAHPM, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics); Director of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Education; and Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Yale Cancer Center was named one of the most influential leaders in hospice and palliative care, a field focused on relieving suffering and improving quality of life for people with serious illnesses.

More than half of human cancers, called “non-inflamed” or “cold” tumors, are not being effectively infiltrated by the cancer-fighting T cells. Essentially, the soldiers are excluded from the battlefield. Yale Cancer Center researchers want to know why.