All Posts: Lombardi Stories
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Team Led by Award-Winning Researcher Finds Pro-Cancer Protein Can Also Be Protective
Inflammation can be both friend and foe when it comes to a certain kind of cancer, according to a team led by an award-winning researcher at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Their findings indicate that over-the-counter antioxidants should be used with a great deal of caution.
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30th Anniversary Lombardi Gala Raises Record-Breaking Funds for Cancer Research
More than 900 attendees raised more than $2.3 million for Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at the 30th Anniversary Lombardi Gala – the most raised at the event to date.
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Taking Aim at Breast Cancer in Underserved Communities
Undergraduate Cristeen Anyanwu (C’18) uses the Scott MacPherson Stapleton Award to make an impact on the health of underserved communities in the Washington, D.C. area through her work at the Capital Breast Care Center housed in Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Wellstein Recognized for Outstanding Research and Excellence in Teaching
Friends, families and colleagues gathered for Georgetown University’s Fall Faculty Convocation in majestic Healy Hall on October 20 to celebrate the promotion of Georgetown professors.
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CBCC Supporters Celebrate the Gift of Life at Annual Breakfast Benefit
About 180 people, including breast cancer survivors and their loved ones, attended the 9th Annual Gift of Life Breakfast Benefit on October 14 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.
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Clinical Trial Underway to Test Innovative Cancer Treatment Based on Georgetown Discoveries
This August, the first patient in a multi-center clinical trial being conducted by Oncternal Therapeutics began receiving an innovative new investigational cancer therapy based on discoveries made by Toretsky, professor and leader of the molecular oncology program at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and his colleagues.
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Raising Issues and Developing Solutions at the Ruesch Center Policy Briefing
Participants at the briefing discussed access to care, the growing cost of cancer research and the implications for policy makers, health care professionals, patients and society.
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First Poetry Café Event at Georgetown Lombardi, MedStar Georgetown Provides Inspiration, Empowerment
(June 27, 2016) — Medicine and the arts seamlessly intertwine in a new event that draws out the creativity of the Georgetown Lombardi and MedStar Georgetown healthcare community. “We are all interested in getting MedStar Georgetown patients, caregivers, medical professionals and students more involved in the creative life of the hospital,” says Julia Langley, director […]
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Seventeenth Annual Men’s Event
June 22, 2016 — It’s an annual tradition that often attracts more than 200 men with a common interest of raising awareness of and money for Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. This year’s “Men’s Event” was no different. “The goals of prostate cancer research are to treat people with fewer side effects, provide medicine that […]
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PanCAN PurpleStride Commemorates Struggles, Triumphs Toward A Cure
June 17, 2016 — “When we first found out about his diagnosis, I told him I would be with him every step of the way,” said Sarah Saleh, whose husband, Rashid, was a Georgetown Lombardi patient. “He said it gave him strength to have me with him.” Many Georgetown Lombardi families at the annual PanCAN […]
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