Fox Chase Cancer Center News

Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have demonstrated that pulsed low dose rate (PLDR) chemoradiation therapy can significantly reduce side effects while maintaining treatment effectiveness for patients with esophageal cancer and non-small cell lung cancer.

A pilot study from Fox Chase Cancer Center, presented at the 2025 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting, offers patients and physicians new options. Researchers found that using CT adaptive stereotactic body radiation therapy (CTA-SBRT) can make repeat radiation not only possible, but safe.

Joshua E. Meyer, MD, FASTRO, Vice Chair of Translational Research and a Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been named a Fellow of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) at the organization’s 2025 Annual Meeting being held in San Francisco.

Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center were part of an international team that found a steep rise in kidney cancer cases will be driven largely by preventable risk factors such as obesity, smoking, lack of exercise, diabetes, and hypertension.

Jeffrey Farma, MD, FACS, Chair and Professor in the Department of Surgery at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been elected to serve as the Society of University Surgeons (SUS) representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS). Farma will also join the SUS Executive Council.

Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Maureen Hill, MD, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery. In addition to seeing patients at Fox Chase, Hill will provide services at the Temple Health – Chestnut Hill Hospital Campus.

Roland L. Dunbrack Jr., PhD, Professor and Co-leader of the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center and Founding Director of the Fox Chase Molecular Modeling Facility, has been honored with the 2026 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB).

Jennifer Kelly, BSN, RN, CURN, a nurse with the Fox Chase-Temple Urologic Institute, has become the first nurse in the Temple Health system to earn certification from the Society of Urologic Nurses & Associates (SUNA).