All Posts: Lombardi Stories
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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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National Hepatitis Awareness Roundtable Featured Georgetown Lombardi, GUMC Faculty
Report of National Hepatitis Awareness Month, May 2016 Our thanks to Dr. Chris Loffredo for providing this update. June 13, 2016 — On May 25, several members of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and faculty members from the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Health Studies participated in a Hepatitis Awareness […]
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Karen Dorsch-Vogel Honored During National Nurses Week
May 12, 2016 — “Virtuous, caring, advocating, dedicated,” and a “spirited stamina.” These are the words used to describe Karen Dorsch-Vogel, the recipient of this year’s Stacy Boylan Award. Dorsch-Vogel is a clinical research nurse in the GI oncology disease group. Beloved Research Nurse The Stacy Boylan Memorial Endowment Fund was created in 2006 to […]
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Melanoma Survivors Luncheon Celebrates Cancer Research Achievement
(May 10, 2016) — If advances in cancer treatment dramatically change the outcome for individual patients, imagine its impact on a physician who has only recently been able to deliver good news. “I know I speak for my colleagues in saying that I have been waiting my whole career for a day like today.” That’s […]
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Breast Cancer Research Championed with Avon Global Scholars, Avon Walk
May 5, 2016 — With a visit from the Avon Foundation Global Scholars Program and a team participating in Avon 39 The Walk to End Breast Cancer, supporters of Georgetown Lombardi’s breast cancer progra
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A Cancer Survivors’ Luncheon Like No Other
(April 30, 2016) — Last year, Stanley Sher, a lawyer who lives in D.C., was certain his time was ending. “I had reached a very low, low point — three surgeries, radiation treatment and nothing had worked,” he said. “I was several months away from disappearing.” Leta Brown had a similar experience when, at age […]
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Georgetown Lombardi Director Joins Blue Ribbon Panel Working Group For National Cancer Moonshot Initiative
April 29, 2016 — Louis M. Weiner, MD, director of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, has joined a blue ribbon panel-working group assembled by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to offer expert advice on the vision, goals and implementation of the National Cancer Moonshot initiative. The NCI’s acting director Douglas R. Lowy, MD, invited […]
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