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Lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer death in the U.S. Each year, lung cancer takes the lives of more than 127,000 people in the U.S.—that’s more than colon and breast cancer combined.
Anyone with lungs can get lung cancer. It doesn’t matter your gender or ethnic background, or whether you are rich, poor, urban or rural. While smoking is the most common cause, environmental and even genetic risk factors can cause lung cancer in never-smokers.
But there is good news.
Researchers at the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered that Black patients with breast cancer who are treated with a chemotherapy called docetaxel experience less of a harmful side effect called peripheral neuropathy. Their findings represent an important shift in knowledge about a patient population who’ve historically been underrepresented in breast cancer research.
The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center is driving an online public education campaign that focuses on cancer early detection and prevention.
In terms of complexity, few cancers hold a candle to pancreatic tumors. Pancreas lesions develop in seclusion, tucked away in millimeters-wide ducts that impede early detection, interfere with confident diagnosis, and complicate the possibility of surgical cure.
A mobile lung cancer screening program will soon take life-saving screenings to eligible high-risk Hoosiers statewide, thanks to a generous $4.5 million gift from the Tom and Julie Wood Family Foundation that will include matching dollars from Indiana University Health, bringing its impact to $8.5 million.
Michael B. Emerick was married, father to an 18-month-old daughter and running four of his own businesses in Florida when severe abdominal pain sent him to a hospital. The harrowing experience that followed proves your cancer doctors’ skill, experience and forthrightness will shape the rest of your life.
~In-Person~ IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Seminar Series with Hari Nakshatri, Ph.D.
JOSEPH E. WALTHER HALL
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IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Seminar Series presents, Hari Nakshatri, Ph.D., Marian J. Morrison Professor of Breast Cancer Research; Professor of Surgery, Professor of Biochemistry & Molec...Read more
~In-Person~ IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Seminar Series with Ryan Jensen, Ph.D.
JOSEPH E. WALTHER HALL
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IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Seminar Series presents, Ryan Jensen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology & Pathology, Yale School of Medicine “The Molecular Functions o...Read more
~Virtual~ IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Grand Rounds with Douglas B. Johnson, M.D., M.S.C.I.
IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Grand Rounds presents, Douglas Johnson, M.D., MSCI, Assistant Professor of Medicine in Hematology/Oncology, Vanderbilt University “Defining toxicities from i...Read more
