Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (May 10, 2023)—Jeffrey Farma, MD, FACS, chief of the Division of General Surgery at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently elected recorder for the Executive Council for the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery.

PHILADELPHIA (May 10, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center has begun offering cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT)-based adaptive radiation therapy, a technique that allows a patient’s radiation treatment to be adjusted in real time to accommodate changes in the body such as tumor shrinkage and/or the position of the adjacent normal organs.

PHILADELPHIA (May 4, 2023)—In a ceremony honoring faculty today at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Anna Marie Skalka, PhD, Senior Advisor to the President and Professor Emerita, was recognized with the Stanley P. Reimann Honor Award, the center’s highest distinction.

PHILADELPHIA (May 2, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Abigail T. Berman, MD, MSCE, as an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology. Berman will focus on caring for patients with thoracic and gastrointestinal cancers.

PHILADELPHIA (May 2, 2023)—Jay Simhan, MD, FACS, Vice Chair of the Department of Urology and Director of Reconstruction and Prosthetics at Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health, presented two studies related to the surgical treatment of erectile dysfunction at this year’s American Urological Association Meeting (AUA) 2023 Annual Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA (April 28, 2023)—Matthew Lee, MD, MBA, a resident in the Department of Urology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, will discuss his use of a new robotic laparoscopic procedure to treat a complication caused by cancer radiation therapy at this year’s American Urological Association (AUA) 2023 Annual Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA (April 28, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health researchers will participate in the presentation and discussion of 24 research projects at the American Urological Association (AUA) 2023 Annual Meeting, which is being held in Chicago April 28-May 1. An asterisk (*) indicates that the author is the main presenter.

PHILADELPHIA (April 27, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health are pleased to announce the new Fox Chase-Temple Urologic Institute, a groundbreaking initiative that will concentrate on both benign and oncologic urology. With over 20 urologists on faculty, the Institute will provide services at multiple locations throughout the greater Philadelphia area.