The 48th annual scientific symposium featured lively talks on cancer discovery and application, marked the kickoff of UNC Lineberger’s 50th anniversary as an NCI-designated cancer center, and celebrated Shelley Earp, MD, for his leadership at UNC and nationally. The post Scientific symposium celebrates UNC Lineberger’s 50th anniversary appeared first on UNC Lineberger.| UNC Lineberger
Students from the Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School Academy of Biomedical Sciences visited the UNC Lineberger for a half-day program of panel discussions, lab tours and hands-on learning. The post UNC Lineberger hosts cancer research career day for high school students appeared first on UNC Lineberger.| UNC Lineberger
The UNC Lineberger-Sylvia Lauterborn and Warren Trent Piver Oncology Nursing Fellowship program celebrated its 10th anniversary and honored its latest class of fellows.| UNC Lineberger
UNC Lineberger is recruiting participants for the Vanguard Study, which is evaluating a new type of blood test that screens for several types of cancer. This is the first study of the Cancer Screening Research Network. The post UNC Lineberger launches study to evaluate multi-cancer detection tests appeared first on UNC Lineberger.| UNC Lineberger
Lung Cancer Initiative has awarded Abner A. Murray, MD, PhD, a third year hematology/oncology fellow at UNC School of Medicine, a 2025-2026 Lung Cancer Research Fellowship grant.| UNC Lineberger
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill clinical trial found that graphic health warnings on little cigars and cigarillos significantly increase users’ intentions to quit and promote behaviors linked to tobacco cessation. These findings could provide the cigar-specific evidence the FDA previously lacked in efforts to require cigar warnings. Published in JAMA Network Open, … Read more| Department of Family Medicine
UNC Lineberger has launched a first-of-its-kind clinical trial aimed at improving outcomes in BRAF wildtype anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC). Siddharth Sheth, DO, MPH, and Jeffrey Blumberg, MD, FACS, are leading the trial.| UNC Lineberger
Kwame Kwofie, a citizen of Ghana, found himself in uncharted territory when he faced a head and neck cancer diagnosis thousands of miles away from home.| UNC Lineberger
UNC Lineberger's J. Kaitlin Morrison, PhD, and Carrie Lee, MD, PhD, launched a study to investigate whether UNC Health can successfully conduct hybrid cancer clinical trials across the state.| UNC Lineberger
Joshua Zeidner, MD, and colleagues report that a combination therapy that adds a recently approved drug to the current standard of care for newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia showed high rates of complete remission in an early-phase clinical trial.| UNC Lineberger
Dr. Lisa Carey talks about the importance of research, coordinated care and helping patients make informed choices.| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
With help from your doctor, you can decide how to respond to your diagnosis.| UNC Health Talk
Hanks has joined the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health as an associate professor of medicine.| UNC Lineberger
