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Georgetown Lombardi Oncologists Encourage Patients to Keep Up with Cancer Screenings
(November 20, 2020) — If you’re due for a routine cancer screening test, you should contact your doctor to find out if it can be safely deferred until the risk of COVID-19 goes down. In contrast, if you have symptoms that could be a sign of cancer, don’t delay and don’t let the pandemic discourage […]
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Georgetown Lombardi Announces New Office for Global Oncology
(November 20, 2020) — Responding to the need for a truly international approach to decreasing the extreme global disparities in cancer care, control and prevention, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center recently announced the formation of an Office for Global Oncology. “The mission of this office will be to address global cancer disparities in surveillance, screening, […]
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Analyzing Tumors in Real Time to Detect Metastatic Cells Could Aid in Treatment
(November 12, 2020) — Identifying cells that metastasize from the primary tumor to other sites in the body, thereby expanding their lethality, has been a goal of scientists for years. If researchers knew more about what gives metastatic cells their ability to spread and grow throughout the body, there would be a better chance to […]
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BellRinger Bike Ride Announcement Concludes ‘Five Days with Lombardi’
(October 9, 2020) — As part of the celebration of its 50th anniversary during the week of Oct. 5-9, Georgetown Lombardi rolled out plans to hold the inaugural BellRinger Bike Ride in September 2021. “BellRinger will be a cycling event that brings together dedicated individuals and teams focused on ending cancer,” said Louis Weiner, MD, […]
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Health Informatics and Data Science Symposium Goes Virtual
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FDA Approves Lung Cancer Drug Supported by Georgetown Lombardi Research
(September 14, 2020) — Julie Shanholtz was having an uneventful summer in 2017 working full time with the same employer she’d had for the past 30 years when she developed an “odd cough” that quickly became severe, but no other symptoms. “I had always been very active and healthy — and didn’t smoke,” the 54-year-old […]
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Georgetown Lombardi Patient Records Song with Cancer Can Rock
(August 14, 2020) — As an amateur musician, songwriting has been an outlet for decades for Seth Lucash, a patient of Michael B. Atkins, MD, deputy director at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. “When I was about 16, I just started sitting at the piano and writing,” he said. “Writing was a very big release […]
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First-of-Its-Kind Clinical Trial at Georgetown Puts Mammography Technologies Under the Spotlight
(July 31, 2020) — In the field of breast screening, 3D imaging, or tomosynthesis mammography, has become the go-to screening modality over conventional digital mammography in recent years. But does 3D screening actually improve detection of — and survival from — life-threatening breast cancers, or does conventional mammography perform just as well at a lower […]
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Cancer Genetic Counseling in the Time of COVID-19
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Lombardi at 50: Community Outreach to Reduce Health Disparities
(March 5, 2020) — When Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities Research was created in 2008, its associate director, Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD — the nation’s first black female epidemiologist — had a clear vision of need about the work ahead within the community. “Georgetown can come to everyone but […]
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