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How COVID-19 is Transforming Smilow Cancer Hospital for the Future
When COVID-19 surged in the spring of 2020, the physicians and staff who work in ambulatory care at Smilow Cancer Hospital and the Smilow Cancer Hospital Network were forced to respond with lightning speed, creating temporary spaces that would allow for social distancing, beefing up technology for relatively novel telehealth visits, and rethinking patient care to keep everyone safe.
25 Feb 2021
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Rallying Resources Around DNA Repair Research
When it comes to unlocking the secrets of DNA repair, Yale Cancer Center has an armamentarium at work. In the last two years, Yale’s team has made significant advances in targeting the BRCA-dependent DNA repair axis for cancer therapy and determined that both BRCA1 and BRCA2 protein are involved in DNA repair, but they have fundamentally different mechanisms.
25 Feb 2021
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Adapting to the Changing Liver Cancer Landscape
In recent years, the liver cancer landscape has been rapidly changing in the United States. Skyrocketing hepatitis C cases and the emergence of a worrying new at-risk group for hepatitis C are presenting Yale Cancer Center researchers and clinicians with new challenges and opportunities in their approach to patient outreach and treatment for liver cancer.
25 Feb 2021
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Mining Brain Metastasis for Answers
When lung cancer and breast cancer relapse, they often metastasize in the brain. The tumors that arise in the brain develop novel characteristics, differences that oft en confer resistance to existing drug therapies and create opportunities for new detection and treatment approaches for Yale Cancer Center researchers.
25 Feb 2021
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Paving the way for Cancer Health Equity
Since the appointment of Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, as Director of the newly formed Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity (CEHE) within Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center, the mission of ensuring cancer health equity and improving outcomes with an emphasis on traditionally marginalized communities, has begun to take shape.
25 Feb 2021
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A Pressing Need for New Ideas for Pancreatic Cancer
Despite poor outcomes nationally and internationally, patients do better when they receive treatment at facilities like Smilow Cancer Hospital. Our unique ability to bring together clinicians and scientists focused on pancreatic cancer is propelling research advances and bringing renewed hope to patients.
25 Feb 2021
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With a New Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer, Where you Live Matters
For men with newly-diagnosed prostate cancer, numerous initial options are available. These include formal treatment options as well as a growing interest in active surveillance.
25 Feb 2021
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Taking a Dumbbell to Drug-Resistant Cancers
The hope is that PROTACs can treat other “undruggable” cancers that don’t respond to current treatments, including types of lung, breast, and colorectal cancers that may not have an active site on which a small-molecule drug or monoclonal antibody could bind.
25 Feb 2021
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Curiosity and Collaboration Work Together to Solve a Cancer Mystery
Obesity has long been identified as a risk factor for pancreatic cancer, but how to leverage that knowledge for prevention and treatment has been elusive. Mandar Deepak Muzumdar, MD, is in the process of changing that.
25 Feb 2021
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Releasing the Brakes on an Innate Immune System Response
Our bodies have two immune systems: the innate and the adaptive, which is prompted into action by the innate immune system. Instead of relying solely on the adaptive immune system, two Yale Cancer Center scientists have gone upstream.
25 Feb 2021
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Smilow Shares Greenwich: Cancer Prevention and Nutrition: What's New?
Smilow Shares: Cancer Prevention, presented by the Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Center in Greenwich
24 Feb 2021
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Yale Cancer Center Study Shows New Treatment Pathway to Prevent and Treat Endometrial Cancer Recurrence
In a new study led by Yale Cancer Center, researchers demonstrate sex hormones and insulin growth factors are associated with recurrence risk of endometrial cancer.
23 Feb 2021
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COVID-19 Vaccination Information from Smilow Cancer Hospital
COVID-19 Vaccination Information from Dr. Charles Fuchs and Lori Pickens.
19 Feb 2021
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Management of Breast Cancer Recurrence
Dr Mehra Golshan speaks to ecancer in an online interview for the virtual BGICC 2021 meeting about the management of breast cancer recurrence.
Source: eCancer
17 Feb 2021
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Neo-adjuvant Therapy and Surgical Decision Making in Breast Cancer
Dr Mehra Golshan speaks to ecancer in an online interview for the virtual BGICC 2021 meeting about the role of neo-adjuvant therapy and breast conservation.
Source: eCancer
17 Feb 2021
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Are 'immunity bubbles' safe for vaccinated people?
As the vaccine rollout continues, some people are considering forming "immunity bubbles," a new twist on pandemic pods, as a safe way to interact with their fully vaccinated peers.
Source: Today
17 Feb 2021
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Comprehensive Breast Cancer Care at the Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Centers in Trumbull, Fairfield, and at Bridgeport Hospital
Smilow Cancer Hospital, in partnership with the Norma Pfriem Breast Center in Trumbull, Fairfield, and at Bridgeport Hospital, are at the forefront of providing innovative and compassionate multi- disciplinary breast care.
17 Feb 2021
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What Cancer Survivorship Can Teach Us about Covid-19
Take it from a cancer survivor: We need to start focusing on Covid-19 survivorship now.
Source: Stat
17 Feb 2021
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Maryam Lustberg Named Director of The Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Chief of Breast Medical Oncology at Yale Cancer Center
Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH, has been appointed Director of The Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Chief of Breast Medical Oncology at Yale Cancer Center.
16 Feb 2021
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Endocrine Surgery at Smilow Cancer Hospital
Smilow Cancer Hospital Endocrine Cancers Program welcomes three specialty trained Endocrine Surgeons to its team.
15 Feb 2021