All Posts:survivorship

• 4th Annual Kovach Lecture Focuses on Survivorship

  (January 16, 2025) — The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center hosted the fourth-annual Edward M. Kovach Cura Personalis Endowed Lecture at Georgetown on Jan. 9, spotlighting one of Georgetown’s core

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cura personalis, Kovach Lecture, philanthropy, survivorship, Survivorship Research Initiative

• Celebrating ‘Thrivership’

  Survivors of melanoma and kidney cancer gathered to celebrate “thrivership” during a luncheon that might not have been possible as recently as 10 years ago as people with these types of cancer are living longer and experiencing cures.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: immunotherapy, kidney cancer, melanoma, survivorship

• Research To Help Patients Make Informed Decisions About Breast MRI

  While many people think that breast cancer screening and mammography are synonymous, Claire Conley, PhD, wants people to know that women who are at higher than average risk for breast cancer may also receive a breast MRI.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: breast cancer, breast imaging, cancer, health disparities, MRI screening, survivorship

• Long-term Study Supports Link Between Inflammation and Cognitive Problems in Older Breast Cancer Survivors

  Researchers followed hundreds of survivors for years to examine suspected source of worrying symptoms. LOS ANGELES (September 30, 2022) — Scientists are still trying to understand why many breast cancer survivors experience troubling cognitive problems for years after treatment. Inflammation is one possible culprit. A new long-term study of older breast cancer survivors, published today […]

  Category: News Release Tags: age and survivorship, breast cancer, cancer, cognitive effects of cancer treatment, survivorship

• Survivorship Research Initiative’s New Director Hopes to Smooth a Rough Road

  (June 24, 2022) — Both the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute use the terms survivorship and survivor to refer to anyone with cancer, from the moment of diagnosis to the end of life. As the director of the Survivorship Research Initiative at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Nina Kadan-Lottick, MD, MSPH, a […]

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer research, survivorship, Survivorship Research Initiative

• Study Shows Sleep Disturbances During the Pandemic Were Similar between Breast Cancer Survivors and Healthy Controls

  WASHINGTON (May 2, 2022) — Results from the Thinking and Living with Cancer Study (TLC) showed that the development of sleep disturbances during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic increased symptoms of depression and anxiety among older women, but the findings did not differ between women who survived breast cancer and women without cancer. […]

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, Hackensack Meridian John Theurer Cancer Center, mental health, sleep disturbances, survivorship

• 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 […]

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: melanoma, survivorship