Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (January 22, 2016) – A multidisciplinary team of physicians from Fox Chase Cancer Center – Temple Health and the Temple University School of Medicine has compiled a comprehensive review of recent advances in the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of bile ducts cancers (or cholangiocarcinomas). The review is published in the January 22^nd issue of Cancer.

PHILADELPHIA (January 18, 2016)  – Forty-four Temple University Health System (TUHS) physicians, including 26 at Fox Chase Cancer Center, have recently been named America’s Top Doctors® for 2016 by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a health care research and information company.

PHILADELPHIA (January 14, 2016) – This unprecedentedly large-scale screen revealed lead compounds that are more selective than approved drugs against mutant kinases and therefore less likely to produce resistance or side effects in patients.

PHILADELPHIA (January 14, 2016) – Adolescent girls living in high-poverty communities and majority Hispanic communities were more likely to have received at least one dose of a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine than those living in low-poverty communities and in communities of other racial and ethnic compositions, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

PHILADELPHIA (January 12, 2016) – Care Connect, an innovative program created by Fox Chase Cancer Center – Temple Health, shows promise for improving the coordination of care between oncologists and community physicians for the growing number of cancer survivors.

PHILADELPHIA (January 5, 2016) – January is Cervical Health Awareness month, and Fox Chase Cancer Center aims to raise awareness about cervical cancer, risk factors and the importance of screening.

PHILADELPHIA (December 18, 2015) – Jeffrey R. Peterson, PhD, an award-winning researcher and associate professor of Cancer Biology at Fox Chase Cancer Center – Temple Health, recently earned a $50,000 research grant from the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition (PBCC), along with his colleagues.

PHILADELPHIA (December 17, 2015) – In his new role, Ridge will work with President and CEO Richard Fisher, MD and hospital administration to improve physician credentialing and privileging processes, and select physician representatives to committees that oversee patient safety and quality control.