Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (May 15, 2024) — Sameer Patel, MD, FACS, Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently named Vice President of the Robert H. Ivy Society of Plastic Surgeons.

PHILADELPHIA (May 13, 2024) — Mitchell Fane, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has received a $255,000 grant from the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) to investigate the role of aging in immune-regulated reactivation from metastatic melanoma.

PHILADELPHIA (May 10, 2024) — Kara Stromberg, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES, Director of Clinical Nutrition and Nutrition Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple University Hospital –Jeanes Campus, was recently recognized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics as a Keystone Award winner.

PHILADELPHIA (May 8, 2024) — On April 26, 2024, Fox Chase Cancer Center welcomed staff and faculty from Temple Health to the 10th Annual Cultural Competence & Awareness in Healthcare Symposium in the Center’s Leidy Auditorium.

PHILADELPHIA (May 6, 2024) — In a study presented today at the American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting 2024, researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center showed that using numerical cutoffs as opposed to radiologist-read CT scans to determine whether a mass was likely cancerous did not yield more accurate results.

PHILADELPHIA (May 3, 2024) — In a study presented today at the American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting 2024, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center showed that in men who have undergone surgery for prostate cancer, the function of artificial urinary sphincters for stress urinary incontinence was improved when radiation was used as an adjuvant therapy rather than as a salvage therapy.

PHILADELPHIA (May 3, 2024)—Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University researchers will participate in the presentation and discussion of 30 research projects and speaking engagements at the American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting 2024, which is being held in San Antonio May 3-6.

PHILADELPHIA (April 30, 2024) — On April 18, 2024, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hosted its inaugural White House Minority Health Forum to recognize National Minority Health Month. Representing Fox Chase Cancer Center, Camille Ragin, PhD, MPH, took part in a forum addressing cancer disparities, from screening to survivorship.