Research
Aug 30, 2024
As an aspiring physician, Aleah Nguyen wants to heal – and as a student researcher, she wants to reveal. Nguyen, a rising junior in Virginia Commonwealth University’s Honors College, is majoring in biology in the College of Humanities and Sciences. This summer, through the Honors Summer Undergraduat...
Research, Clinical, Technology
Aug 29, 2024
Navid Fallahi knew there had to be a better way. Fallahi, M.D., is a fourth-year clinical resident at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Medicine and Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center. Cervical and uterine cancers present significant challenges in his specialty – radiation oncology – and ...
Research, Center News & Funding
Aug 08, 2024
A scientist at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center was awarded more than $2.7 million in grant funding to evaluate the effectiveness of a new targeted drug in treating the most common type of lung cancer. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., where approximately 80-85% of ...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Clinical, Research, Prevention & Control
Aug 05, 2024
A retired firefighter takes on the battle of a lifetime with the support of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, reminding others that there’s hope “even in your darkest moments.” Greg Leitz is no stranger to battling adverse circumstances. He fought hundreds of fires during his 20-year tenure wi...
Research, Center News & Funding
Aug 05, 2024
Moriah Bellissimo, Ph.D., R.D., a former T32 fellow at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center and postdoctoral fellow at VCU Health Pauley Heart Center, has received a Career Transition Award from Susan G. Komen in support of her project “Physical Activity to Reduce Breast Cancer Treatment Morbidity...
Research
Jul 29, 2024
Scientists at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center have coined a new term — “biosocial determinants of health” — to define the interaction of biological, environmental and social drivers that influence cancer risk, incidence and disparities. Through a new paper published in Trends in Cancer, study...
Prevention & Control, Research
Jul 25, 2024
Those living in disadvantaged neighborhoods have significantly higher activity of stress-related genes, according to new research published in JAMA Network Open, which could contribute to higher rates of aggressive prostate cancer in African American men. The study was co-led by VCU Massey Comprehen...
Center News & Funding, Research
Jul 22, 2024
As one of just two NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in Virginia, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center is at the forefront of the nation’s cancer research efforts. As Massey celebrates 50 years of fueling innovation in cancer research, scientists at Massey continue to conduct cutting-edg...
Research, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Jul 02, 2024
Standing before a crowded room of clinicians, scientists, students and community members at the Science Museum of Virginia, Patricia Ganz, M.D., underlined how symptom management and quality of life sprouted lasting roots in the continuum of cancer treatment four decades ago. “Symptoms were always p...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Clinical, Research, Prevention & Control
Jun 14, 2024
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center placed its reputation as an international leader for cutting-edge cancer care and clinical research on display at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 31 - June 4. The clinical oncology conference brought togeth...
Research
Jun 12, 2024
Nolan Wages, Ph.D., the director of the Biostatistics Shared Resource and a member of the Developmental Therapeutics research program at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been named a fellow of the Society for Clinical Trials (SCT). This prestigious designation, introduced in 2005, recogni...
Center News & Funding, Research
Jun 03, 2024
Nearly 75 medical students to participate in groundbreaking national Diversity in Clinical Trials Research Program The Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Award Program (Winn Awards) today announced that 72 medical students who are underrepresented in medicine and/or from disadvantaged backg...
Research
May 29, 2024
New research out of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center — recently published in Drug Resistance Updates — revealed a previously unknown biological process through which breast tumor cells develop resistance to standard treatment, which could open the door for cancer scientists around the world to...
Center News & Funding, Research
May 24, 2024
As one of just two NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in Virginia, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center is at the forefront of the nation’s cancer research efforts. As Massey celebrates 50 years of fueling innovation in cancer research, scientists at Massey continue to conduct cutting-edg...
Prevention & Control, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Massey 50, Research
May 24, 2024
The Cancer Champions program at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center gives survivors and caregivers an opportunity to work alongside researchers. Founded in 2021 and rooted in earlier community-engaged research efforts, Cancer Champions are at the center of Massey’s community engagement in researc...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research
May 21, 2024
Cancer survivors, advocates, congressional representatives, and other supporters packed a briefing room at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 15 to learn about cancer equity advances made in recent years. Robert A. Winn, M.D., director and Lipman Chair in Oncology at VCU Massey...
Research, Center News & Funding
May 13, 2024
Kaustubh Datta, Ph.D., sat behind his new desk in the Goodwin Research Laboratory and reflected on what motivates him every day to study the biology of prostate cancer. “It’s who I am,” he smiled from behind a pair of black rimmed glasses. “I always think if I can extend a patient’s life at least fo...
Clinical, Research, Prevention & Control, Center News & Funding
Apr 17, 2024
Through a collaborative, grant-funded partnership between three cancer centers along the East Coast, a community-driven initiative is underway to increase access to lung cancer screenings, chip away at existing health disparities and set a nationwide precedent for moving toward lung health equity fo...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research, Massey 50
Apr 16, 2024
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center again made a splash as a worldwide leader in cancer care, research and education during the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2024 in San Diego on April 5-10. The international conference recorded a record number of registrants thi...
Center News & Funding, Research
Apr 01, 2024
“Don’t underestimate the level of meaning and importance” on a person’s stress management and overall wellbeing, said Susan Lutgendorf, Ph.D., to a crowded room of cancer investigators and community advocates. “It helps people to feel like they’re contributing to the world in some way and making a d...
Treatments in clinical trials may be more effective or have fewer side effects than the treatments that are currently available. With more than 200 studies for multiple types of cancers and cancer prevention, Massey supports a wide array of clinical trials.
Massey supports hundreds of top cancer specialists serving the needs of our patients. Massey’s medical team provides a wealth of expertise in cancer diagnosis, treatment, prevention and symptom management.