All Posts: kidney cancer

• 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 […]

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer, kidney cancer

• Carnegie Renews Classification of Georgetown as ‘Very High Research University’

  Georgetown has once again been classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as an institution with “very high research activity.”

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer, kidney cancer, liver cancer, lymphoma, prostate cancer

• New Immunotherapy Combination Tolerable, Effective in Patients with Advanced Kidney Cancer

  A study led by Michael B. Atkins, MD, deputy director, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, that combined an agent that blocks blood vessel formation with an immunotherapy agent was found to have promising anti-tumor activity and no unexpected side effects in an early-phase clinical trial in patients with advanced kidney cancer who had not been previously treated.

  Category: News Release Tag: kidney cancer