Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (August 5, 2024) — Richard Bleicher, MD, FACS, a Professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology and Clinical Director of the Breast Service Line, has been promoted to Chief of the new Division of Breast Surgery at Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Aitziber Buque Martinez, PhD, as an Assistant Professor in the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program.

PHILADELPHIA (July 29, 2024) — In a study published today, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center and Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University have identified factors that, if addressed, could decrease incidence of aggressive prostate cancer in areas where rates are highest — often Black communities with high rates of poverty.

PHILADELPHIA (July 25, 2024) — Fox Chase Cancer Center was recently recognized by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as a Surgical Quality Partner through participation in the organization’s Commission on Cancer and National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP).

PHILADELPHIA (July 23, 2024) — A new study published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications by researchers from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and the Fox Chase Cancer Center sheds light on how protein phosphatases target proteins and help regulate cell cycle progression, work that could help lay the groundwork for potential new targets for cancer therapies.

PHILADELPHIA (July 22, 2024) — Sanjay S. Reddy, MD, FACS, an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, Program Director of the Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship, and Co-Director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute, has been promoted to Division Chief of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center.

PHILADELPHIA (July 22, 2024)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Michelle Pedersen, DO, as a hospitalist and Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine within the Department of Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA (July 19, 2024) — Richard Bleicher, MD, FACS, Director of the Breast Oncology Fellowship program and Clinical Director of the Breast Service Line at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been named the 2023-2024 University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship’s Annual Distinguished Commencement Visiting Professor. Bleicher was unanimously elected as this year’s distinguished professor by the MD Anderson fellows.