Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (May 2, 2019) – Fox Chase Cancer Center has earned a 2019 HAP Achievement Award from The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) for outstanding effort to enhance processes for managing patient discharge planning and care transitions.

PHILADELPHIA (April 29, 2019) — Using next-generation sequencing (NGS) based RNA-sequencing, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center found a fusion gene signature in primary tracheobronchial adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare lung tumor. This study is the first time the MYB/MYBL1 fusion genes have been systemically investigated for this cancer type.

Philadelphia Magazine named forty-seven Fox Chase Cancer Center physicians to their “Top Doctors” list for 2019. 

PHILADELPHIA (April 22, 2019) – Christoph Seeger, PhD, professor and senior scientist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, is the recipient of the Hepatitis B Foundation’s 2019 Baruch S. Blumberg Prize for excellence in hepatitis B research.

PHILADELPHIA (April 16, 2019) – A new book by Anna Marie Skalka, PhD, professor emerita at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere, has been published by Harvard University Press.

PHILADELPHIA (April 15, 2019)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce its support for the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network’s annual “Walk to End Bladder Cancer.” Faculty, volunteers, patients, survivors and their families will walk together on Saturday, April 27.

PHILADELPHIA (April 9, 2019) – Tomoki Makino, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of gastrointestinal surgery at Osaka University in Japan, spent the first week of April learning about the American surgical system as a visiting surgeon at Fox Chase Cancer Center.

PHILADELPHIA (April 4, 2019) — Igor Astsaturov, MD, PhD, co-leader of the Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center, received a grant from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network to support research into potential new therapies for pancreatic cancer.