Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (November 4, 2019) – November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness month. While no screening tests have been shown to lower risk, there are newer tests for detecting pancreatic cancer early that can benefit individuals who are at high risk.

PHILADELPHIA (November 4, 2019) – Underserved women were more tempted to smoke after giving birth if they had multiple children and more stress, according to a study conducted at Fox Chase Cancer Center.

PHILADELPHIA (October 29, 2019) – Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers have determined that RNA-based next generation sequencing picks up gene fusions in sarcoma tumors that traditional gene testing may not.

SALT LAKE CITY (October 28, 2019) – On November 4,  Michael J Hall, MD, MS, will host a teleconference at the 2019 CGA-IGC Annual Meeting on advances in GI cancer genetics.

PHILADELPHIA (October 22, 2019) – Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center say a new, more accurate genomic sequencing classifier allows patients to avoid one in five surgeries for thyroid cancer because it more accurately classifies samples taken from thyroid nodules compared to earlier versions of the technology.

PHILADELPHIA (October 22, 2019) – Fox Chase Cancer Center announces the hiring of Israel Cañadas, PhD, who will join the Blood Cell Development and Function Program as an assistant professor on November 1, 2019.

PHILADELPHIA (October 21, 2019) – Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Christian A. Koch, MD, PhD, FACP, who will join the Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, as director and professor. Koch comes to Fox Chase from the University of Tennessee, Memphis, where he served as clinical professor.

PHILADELPHIA (October 21, 2019) – New research from Fox Chase Cancer Center has found that longer delays to surgery in women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) predicted a higher risk of invasive ductal carcinoma and a slightly worse survival rate.