Tumor profiling has become the mainstay of personalized oncology.It is already quite evident that key biological principles are shared between the tumors despite difference in their site and tissue of origin. Activated oncogene HER2 is a great example: once...

Dr. Patricia Kropf and Dr. Jean-Pierre Issa, a researcher at Fox Chase, are testing the next generation of epigenetic therapy, using genes to fight cancer. It’s being funded by Stand Up To Cancer. Stephanie Stahl and CBSPhilly filed a report on the benefits...

Every once in a while, it’s important to get on a train and go to Washington to make your voice heard. At Fox Chase Cancer Center’s kind invitation, I went with Communications Director Lisa Bailey and fellow breast cancer survivor Kim Hagerich to the Capito...

More than a decade after his wife’s death, Lowell Dubrow is still fighting cancer by funding research at Fox Chase. “One of the things about cancer is that there are a lot of people touched by it—almost everyone is—and those stories kind of get to you,...

In the current era of fiscal restraints, other common sources of research funding, in particular those from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have both decreased and tended to support more conventional and conservative work, and, thus, it has become ...