Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Massey 50
Juanita Lawrence scanned the crowd while her grandchild climbed through one of the inflatable play areas at the Comprehensive Carnival, a free community event held by VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center. Lawrence was one of more than 1,000 communi...
Research, Center News & Funding
Kaustubh Datta, Ph.D., sat behind his new desk in the Goodwin Research Laboratory and reflected on what motivates him every day to study the biology of prostate cancer. “It’s who I am,” he smiled from behind a pair of black rimmed glasses. “I always ...
Center News & Funding, Massey 50, Clinical
In 2024, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center is enlisting the help of individuals who contributed to the foundation laid over the past 50 years. Through these interviews, Massey is able to preserve moments in time and recognize how far oncology ha...
Prevention & Control, Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
“I feel like a speck of dust in comparison to the size of the problems we face,” said Lisa Richardson, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, during the 2024 Health Distri...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Massey 50
May 15, 2024
Juanita Lawrence scanned the crowd while her grandchild climbed through one of the inflatable play areas at the Comprehensive Carnival, a free community event held by VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center. Lawrence was one of more than 1,000 community members who turned out to celebrate Massey's ac...
Research, Center News & Funding
May 13, 2024
Kaustubh Datta, Ph.D., sat behind his new desk in the Goodwin Research Laboratory and reflected on what motivates him every day to study the biology of prostate cancer. “It’s who I am,” he smiled from behind a pair of black rimmed glasses. “I always think if I can extend a patient’s life at least fo...
Center News & Funding, Massey 50, Clinical
May 06, 2024
In 2024, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center is enlisting the help of individuals who contributed to the foundation laid over the past 50 years. Through these interviews, Massey is able to preserve moments in time and recognize how far oncology has come since the beginning of the cancer center in...
Prevention & Control, Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
May 06, 2024
“I feel like a speck of dust in comparison to the size of the problems we face,” said Lisa Richardson, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, during the 2024 Health District Directors’ Summit on May 1. “I don’t know the a...
Clinical
Apr 26, 2024
Richmond Magazine’s annual list of “Top Docs” once again recognizes a number of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center physicians. Featured in the magazine’s April 2024 issue, the list includes nearly 40 doctors from varied specialties who provide oncology-related care to Massey’s patients, includin...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Apr 23, 2024
On Thursday, April 18, leaders from VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center convened with other physicians, researchers and advocates for the White House Minority Health Forum. Robert A. Winn, M.D., director and Lipman Chair in Oncology at Massey, took part in a panel discussion titled “Access to Ca...
Clinical, Research, Prevention & Control, Center News & Funding
Apr 17, 2024
Through a collaborative, grant-funded partnership between three cancer centers along the East Coast, a community-driven initiative is underway to increase access to lung cancer screenings, chip away at existing health disparities and set a nationwide precedent for moving toward lung health equity fo...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research, Massey 50
Apr 16, 2024
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center again made a splash as a worldwide leader in cancer care, research and education during the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2024 in San Diego on April 5-10. The international conference recorded a record number of registrants thi...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Massey 50
Apr 04, 2024
In 2023, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center achieved the highest level of recognition from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. Massey plans to celebrate this achievement with a free, family-friendly carnival on Saturday, April 20 from noon - 3 p.m. ...
Center News & Funding, Research
Apr 01, 2024
“Don’t underestimate the level of meaning and importance” on a person’s stress management and overall wellbeing, said Susan Lutgendorf, Ph.D., to a crowded room of cancer investigators and community advocates. “It helps people to feel like they’re contributing to the world in some way and making a d...
Center News & Funding, Massey 50, Research
Mar 27, 2024
In 2024, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center is celebrating 50 years of fueling innovation in cancer research, building community trust through partnership and training the next generation of cancer specialists to continue its legacy of patient- and community-centered care. Founded in 1974, Mass...
Research, Center News & Funding, Massey 50
Mar 27, 2024
Susan J. Mellette, M.D., arrived in Richmond in 1954 and began her career as a research fellow at what was then the Medical College of Virginia (MCV). Mellette, a 1947 graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, had conducted both laboratory and clinical research and clinical train...
Center News & Funding, Research
Mar 22, 2024
As one of just two NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in Virginia, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center is at the forefront of the nation’s cancer research efforts. Researchers at Massey conduct laboratory-based basic, population, and clinical and translational-focused research to advance...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research
Mar 18, 2024
Robert A. Winn, M.D., gestured to the crowd in front of him and asked three women in attendance from the Chickahominy Indian Tribe to stand up for recognition. “I have chased academic excellence my whole life. I am to the point that I am chasing academic relevance,” said Winn, the director and Lipma...
Clinical, Adult Outpatient Pavilion, Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Mar 08, 2024
The regular session of the Virginia General Assembly (GA) adjourned on March 9 in Richmond, but contributions made during it will make a lasting impact on patients at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center. On Feb. 22, more than a dozen pages from the Virginia House of Delegates visited Massey to d...
Center News & Funding, Research
Mar 04, 2024
Nadine J. Barrett, Ph.D., M.A., M.S., stood in front of a packed ballroom and reflected on her 15-year professional relationship with Robert A. Winn, M.D., director and Lipman Chair in Oncology at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center. “Dr. Winn walks the talk all day, every day,” said Barrett, as...
Research
Mar 04, 2024
Stanley Cheatham is a Ph.D. candidate in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. He studies the side effects of chemotherapy drugs taken by cancer patients, as well as potential solutions for mitigating these adverse reactions. Cheatham i...
Center News & Funding
Feb 29, 2024
When Darrell Borum was in his mid-30s in the early 2000s, he began experiencing symptoms that initially sent him to see a cardiologist. “I had high blood pressure and a rapid heart rate, more than 120 beats per minute,” Borum remembered. “But my cardiologist did not think it was cardiac in nature.”...
Clinical, Research, Prevention & Control
Feb 27, 2024
New research out of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center and VCU Health Pauley Heart Center indicates that survivors of childhood cancer are at a significantly higher risk of death following a major cardiovascular event — including heart failure, heart attack or stroke — than the general public. ...
Center News & Funding, Massey 50
Feb 22, 2024
Watch video “It took my breath away,” Jill Thalhimer Campbell said, recalling the first time she heard triple negative breast cancer survivor Tara Daudani speak. It was 2020, 10 years after Campbell lost her own mother to the same disease. That very personal shared connection drew the two women to ...
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