Archive: News Release

• DNA Tags Enable Blood-Based Tests to Assess Cancer Treatment Outcomes

  WASHINGTON (July 27, 2021) — Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) shed into the blood was discovered in the late 1940s, but with rapid advances in genomics and computational analytics in just the past few years, researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center now believe that studying tags, or modifications to this type of DNA, may lead to […]

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cfDNA, liquid biopsy

• Small Numbers of Cells in a Tumor Could Be Key Enablers of Cancer Metastasis

  WASHINGTON (June 16, 2021) — Just a small number of cells found in tumors can enable and recruit other types of cells nearby, allowing the cancer to spread to other parts of the body, report Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists. Working with their research collaborators, the scientists found that “enabler cells” comprise about 20 […]

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer research, CRISPR, John Theurer Cancer Cancer at Hackensack University Medical Center

• Mechanism for How Pancreatic Cancer Evades Immunotherapy Elucidated

  Discovery could lead to new or improved therapeutic options. WASHINGTON (January 28, 2021) — Pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal of all cancers, is capable of evading attacks by immune cells by changing its microenvironment so that the immune cells suppress, rather than support, an attack on the tumor, according to a study led […]

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, immunotherapy, pancreatic cancer

• Male Breast Cancer Patients Face High Prevalence of Heart Disease Risk Factors

  Findings indicate greater need for involvement of cardiologists, cardio-oncologists in this rarer patient population WASHINGTON (January 25, 2021) — Male breast cancer patients were found to have a high prevalence of cardiovascular conditions, in a small study of this rare patient population presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Advancing the Cardiovascular Care of the […]

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cardio-oncology, cardiology, cardiovascular risk, male breast cancer

• Disrupting the Cellular Process That Promotes Pancreatic Cancer’s Deadly Growth

  WASHINGTON (December 8, 2020) — Researchers say they’ve identified a way to disrupt a process that promotes the growth of pancreatic cancers — one of the most difficult and deadly cancers to treat. The team, led by scientists at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and including investigators from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, STCube and Fluidigm, […]

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer research, pancreatic cancer

• Smoking, Tobacco Use Among Teens Continues to Drop Even as Use of E-cigs Grows

  WASHINGTON (December 2, 2020) — Despite the increase in use of e-cigarettes among adolescents, cigarette and smokeless tobacco prevalence declined more rapidly between 2012 and 2019 than in previous periods, according to a new study. The analysis by Georgetown University and the University of Michigan shows that past 30-day and daily use of both cigarettes […]

  Category: News Release Tags: e-cigarettes, smoking, smoking trends, tobacco control

• Space Travel Can Adversely Impact Energy Production in a Cell

  WASHINGTON (November 25, 2020) — Studies of both mice and humans who have traveled into space reveal that critical parts of a cell’s energy production machinery, the mitochondria, can be made dysfunctional due to changes in gravity, radiation exposure and other factors, according to investigators at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. These findings are part […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biological effects of space travel, biomedical research, cancer research, mitochondrial function, radiation, space research

• Boosting Stem Cell Activity Can Enhance Immunotherapy Benefits

  WASHINGTON (November 23, 2020) — Immune-system T cells have been reprogrammed into regenerative stem cell-like memory (TSCM) cells that are long-lived, highly active “super immune cells” with strong antitumor activity, according to new research from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The reprogramming involves a novel approach the researchers developed that inhibits the activity of proteins […]

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer research, immunotherapy, T cells, The Loop Immunology and Immunotherapy Laboratory

• Immunotherapy Combo Halts Rare, Stage 4 Sarcoma in Teen

  NUTLEY, NJ (October 14, 2020) — A patient with end-stage and rapidly progressing soft-tissue cancer whose tumor did not respond to standard treatment had a “rapid and complete response” to a novel combination of immunotherapy, according to new research published by a team of scientists from John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center […]

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, epithelioid sarcoma, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Consortium, immunotherapy, John Theurer Cancer Cancer at Hackensack University Medical Center, sarcoma

• Menthol Cigarette Ban in the U.S. May Lower Number of Smokers

  Category: News Release Tags: e-cigarettes, smoking, smoking cessation