Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU (CHoR) have jointly earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for their palliative care programs, making them the first and only certified palliative care programs in … Continue reading
According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), more than half of all cancer deaths could be prevented by making healthy choices like not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, eating nutritiously and staying physically active. As January marks the start of … Continue reading
After uncovering a mechanism that promotes chronic intestinal inflammation and the development of colorectal cancer, scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have found that fingolimod, a drug currently approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, could potentially eliminate … Continue reading
After recently announcing success in eliminating melanoma metastasis in laboratory experiments, scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have made another important discovery in understanding the process by which the gene mda-9/syntenin contributes to metastasis in melanoma (the spread … Continue reading