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Fluorescence Lights Up Hidden Cancer
Surgery is a crucial weapon against cancer. But cancer can evade it. A surgeon may think all the tumor has been removed, only to find out from pathology reports that some was left behind. That can mean a second surgery for the patient. Or, if microscopic cancer cells aren’t found by pathologists,...
Duke Breast Cancer Expert Named One of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People
Shelley Hwang, MD , chief of breast surgery at the Duke Cancer Institute, has been named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people for 2016 as a pioneer in her field. One of the world’s foremost experts in early-stage breast cancers, Hwang has become an international leader calling for research to...
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Duke Cancer Institute physician Brent Hanks, MD, PhD, is studying patient tumors to reveal the genetic changes that happen when melanomas win a battle and become resistant to immunotherapy treatments. In the last couple of years, patients with advanced melanoma have gained an ally in their fight...
The Double Agent Drug
Ines Batinic-Haberle and colleagues developed BMX-001 based on a discovery in a Duke basic research lab. The drug will first be tested in patients with brain cancer and head and neck cancer in clinical trials at Duke in 2016. Duke Cancer Institute member Ines Batinic-Haberle, PhD, holds a vial of...
Vice President Biden Visits Duke As Part Of “Moonshot” Initiative
Invoking the aspirational spirit that put U.S. astronauts on the moon, Vice President Joe Biden visited Duke Health today as part of the national “moonshot” initiative he is leading to advance cancer research. With the Duke Cancer Institute and the Duke University School of Medicine as a backdrop,...
Paul Modrich Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Duke Cancer Institute member Paul Modrich, PhD, was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Modrich is also a James B. Duke professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He shares the prize with Aziz Sancar,...
Thirteen Years and Counting
No one would say it’s a good thing to be diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor at age 30. But Sabrina Lewandowski insists it has changed her life for the better. "Having cancer that early in life made me rethink things," she says. "It has given me time to change myself as a person and live a...
