All Posts: cancer

• New Understanding of How to Harness the Immune System to Fight Cancer

  Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified a new way to reprogram T cells, which are infection and tumor-fighting white blood cells, so that they have a superior memory, thereby making them more effective in killing cancer cells.

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

• Method Developed to Identify Best Treatment Combinations for Glioblastoma Based on Unique Cellular Targets

  Researchers have developed a new computational approach that uncovers possible drugs for specific cellular targets for treating glioblastoma, a lethal brain tumor. This approach enabled them to predict more effective treatment combinations to fight the disease on an individualized basis. This laboratory and computational research effort was led by scientists at Georgetown Lombardi.

  Category: News Release Tags: brain tumor, cancer, computational research, glioblastoma

• Professor Makes Strides in Pancreatic Cancer Detection and Treatment

  Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate of all cancers. Georgetown Lombardi member Jill Smith, MD, is working to improve the disease’s grim statistics. Over the past decade, Smith, a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine in the School of Medicine, has made discoveries in the lab that she’s working to translate to patients.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, pancreatic cancer, translational research

• An Overlooked Hormone Eyed as Deadly Driver of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer in Women with Obesity

  A new analysis of research into the most common type of breast cancer has zeroed in on an overlooked hormone that may be responsible for the increased risk of breast cancer death in postmenopausal women with obesity. It also raises the possibility that treatment of these aggressive breast cancers could be improved with the addition of weight-loss drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists.

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, breast cancer research, cancer, GLP-1 receptor agonists, obesity and cancer

• School of Health Student Presents Foundational Cancer Research at International Conference

  School of Health student Keerthana Ramanathan (H’26) presented her team’s foundational cancer research at the 37th International Papillomavirus Conference (IPVS) in Bangkok, Thailand, in October. The IPVS is the primary international research conference for human papillomavirus (HPV).

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer, HPV, student research

• Ralph Lauren Center Pastoral Initiative Collaborates with Local Churches to Offer Cancer Education and Screening

  Community outreach and engagement is a priority for the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and as its pastoral initiative coordinator, Mireille Bright, PhD, MPH, connects with the leaders of local churches to offer cancer prevention education, screening and navigation services.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer, cancer prevention, community engagement, community outreach, pastoral initiative, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention

• Leading Cancer Research Centers Reinforce Importance of Safe and Effective Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination To Prevent Cancer

  National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Cancer Centers with leading national organizations and the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center have released a joint statement reinforcing the importance of safe and effective human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination to prevent cancer. Nationally, HPV vaccination coverage has stagnated and falls short of the national goals.

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, HPV, HPV vaccine

• Clinical Study Deepens Understanding of Mesothelioma and Opens the Door to Potential Treatment Options

  People with operable diffuse pleural mesothelioma may benefit from immunotherapy before and after surgery, based on results of a clinical trial exploring the sequence of treatment and the role of surgery for this difficult to treat cancer.

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, clinical trials, immunotherapy, mesothelioma, research

• Rate of Rare Liver Cancer High Among Russian Nuclear Workers, Particularly Women, Study Finds

  A new study of Russian nuclear workers, one of only a few to examine liver cancer in people exposed to radiation in a chronic, low-dose occupational setting, finds higher rates of bile duct cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma among the workers, as well as unusually high rates in women of angiosarcoma of the liver, a form of cancer that is extremely rare.

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, Mayak Nuclear Workers, occupational radiation exposure, radiation, radiation exposure

• Georgetown Study Highlights Opportunities for Liver Cancer Interventions in Thailand

  Safer pesticide practices, clean drinking water, and effective community health programs could help reduce liver and bile duct cancer risk in Thailand, according to a new study by researchers at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

  Category: News Release Tags: bile duct cancer, cancer, global oncology, liver cancer, pesticide use, Thailand