Ait-Aissa receives ACS seed grant
Karima Ait-Aissa, PhD, associate in Cardiovascular Medicine, received a $30,000 American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant from the University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center….
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Furqan receives NCI leadership award
Muhammad Furqan, MD, associate professor in Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & Marrow Transplantation and leader of the Thoracic Multidisciplinary Oncology Group at the Holden Comprehensive…
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Garje aims at GU cancers on multiple fronts
Genitourinary (GU) cancers, including prostate cancer, are the most common among men, and Rohan Garje, MBBS, clinical assistant professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology,…
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Phadke leads pilot study into “chemo brain”
Sneha Phadke, DO, assistant clinical professor in Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation and a breast medical oncologist at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center…
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Liquid biopsy reveals ability to tailor treatment
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a cancer that arises from bile ducts/channels draining bile in the liver and often includes the gallbladder cancers. CCA is the second…
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Update from the Section of Oncology – Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation
The following is a guest post from Mohammed Milhem, MBBS, Chief of the Section of Oncology. It is part of an ongoing 2019 series of…
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Iowa results part of NEJM publication
A recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine features the results of a multi-site clinical trial in which Dr. Mo Milhem and the…
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Talking It Through
For 90 minutes every other week, about a dozen people share a small, comfortable space and talk about their cancer. They talk about how it…
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Cancer Center Designated “High Performing Site”
Last year, the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (HCCC) at the University of Iowa received its third renewal of its designation as “Comprehensive,” a label that…
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By trusting in clinical trials, cancer patients spread the benefits of treatment innovations
by Tony Craine, Health at Iowa In spring 2015, Trent Phillips of Jesup, Iowa, felt a nagging pain in the back of his left leg…
