Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (November 21, 2016) – Researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center found that cervical cancer screening rates in the traditionally under-served and under-screened community of Korean-American women increased in response to a multi-component health intervention.

PHILADELPHIA (November 11, 2016) — David S. Weinberg, MD, chairman of the Department of Medicine at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been elected to the Interurban Clinical Club.

In a unanimous vote by the council and general membership, Weinberg was voted in as an active member in a meeting on November 4 in Philadelphia. He will be welcomed at the group’s next meeting in April 2017 in Baltimore.

PHILADELPHIA (November 10, 2016) – As part of its ongoing commitment to patient safety, Fox Chase Cancer Center is standing with a national campaign to end a dangerous chemotherapy error. Just Bag It: The NCCN Campaign for Safe Vincristine Handling, launched today by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®), encourages health care providers to adopt a policy to always dilute and administer the medication vincristine in a mini IV-drip bag to prevent the improper administration of the drug.

PHILADELPHIA (November 7, 2016) – Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have developed a a new way for FACT to unspool DNA from the histones that normally provide DNA packaging in the small volume of cell nuclei. The study appears early online in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.

PHILADELPHIA (November 4, 2016) – Valerie Elizabeth Armstead, MD, has joined Fox Chase Cancer Center as a professor in the department of anesthesiology.

PHILADELPHIA (November 3, 2016) — Felipe Suero, MD, has joined the department of anesthesiology at Fox Chase Cancer Center as an attending anesthesiologist.

PHILADELPHIA (November 3, 2016) – Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, deputy cancer center director, translation research and co-leader of molecular therapeutics, received the Scientific Research Award, Camille Ragin, PhD, an associate professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control Program received the Cancer Control Award, and Alan Howald, associate vice president of business and network development for Temple University Health System, was recognized with the volunteer achievement award.

PHILADELPHIA (November 1, 2016) – This November, Fox Chase Cancer Center is observing National Lung Cancer Awareness Month. The only recommended screening test for lung cancer is low-dose computed tomography (low-dose CT scan, or LDCT).