February 3, 2021
Gynecologic Cancers: A Team Approach to Women’s Health Care. Please join the UNC Lineberger Cancer Network for the NC Community College lecture with Daniel Clarke-Pearson, MD, and Lyn Filip, RN, BSN, OCN. More information and registration at unccn.org/02172021
January 28, 2021
The UNC Integrated Translational Oncology Program (iTOP) training program focuses on training clinicians, basic scientists, and MD-PhD candidates in clinical/translational disease-based research.
October 28, 2020
Marjory Charlot, MD, MPH, MSc, published an essay in the Journal of Clinical Oncology that recounts an experience with racism that was directed towards her from a patient. In the essay, she points to the need for education that will help trainees and all providers address interpersonal racism.
October 16, 2020
Outpatient Adult Oncology team raised $800 as a way to say thank you to MICU and 6 Bedtower staff at UNC Medical Center for all of their hard work during challenging COVID-19 pandemic.
May 21, 2020
Michael Meyers, MD, professor in the division of surgical oncology and director of the general surgery residency program, authored an editorial on his research into innovations in Surgical Techniques.
April 27, 2020
Blossom Damania, PhD, vice dean for research at the UNC School of Medicine, was the only member of the UNC-Chapel Hill community selected as one of 276 new members to the oldest honorary society in the United States.
June 27, 2019
Kate Westmoreland, MD, has been amazed and excited by a surge of support for her work to improve treatment for adolescents and young adults with Burkitt lymphoma in Malawi, a country in Sub-Saharan Africa where this type of blood cancer is more common and deadly than in the United States.
April 17, 2019
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year grant of more than $2.2 million to UNC Lineberger’s Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD, to support her research into the immune response in pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancers.
April 3, 2019
Lifting spirits and helping ease tension are the calling cards of SCHALL, the rehabilitative facility dog at the N.C. Cancer Hospital’s pediatric hematology oncology clinic.
April 2, 2019
Paul Godley, MD, PhD, MPP, UNC School of Medicine’s Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, and the Rush S. Dickson Distinguished Professor of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Medicine, passed away Sunday, March 31. The funeral service will be held Saturday, April 6.
January 31, 2019
Eve Van Buren chalked up her fatigue to her stressful lifestyle. Turns out she was suffering from Overactive Parathyroid Glands. Diagnosis and surgery at UNC gave relief to Van Buren.
August 3, 2018
In the journal Cancer Immunology Research, scientists led by UNC Lineberger’s Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD, revealed that a molecule called interleukin-35 plays a role in suppressing cancer-fighting immune cells in pancreatic cancer.