Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (August 8, 2022)—Patients with metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC) have limited options for treatment, with few drugs available for patients who have already completed frontline chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Now a global multi-institutional study that included researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center has shown that the investigational drug tarlatamab is a promising new potential treatment for SCLC.

PHILADELPHIA (August 4, 2022)—The Fels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, in partnership with Fox Chase Cancer Center and Thomas Jefferson University, will host a free symposium, “Genome Instability: Discovery to Personalized Medicine.” This event will be held in person on Friday, October 14, 2022, at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA (August 3, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Adam Walchak, MD, MS, as an assistant professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology, where he will work in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

PHILADELPHIA (August 2, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Nithya Cherukuru, MD, as an assistant professor in the Section of Psychiatry, where she will help patients cope with cancer throughout their treatment, from initial diagnosis to survivorship or end of life.

PHILADELPHIA (August 2, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Malorie K. Simons, MD, as an assistant professor in the Department of Gastroenterology.

PHILADELPHIA (July 25, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Vanessa B. Wookey, MD, as an assistant professor in the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program.

Wookey earned her medical degree in 2015 from the Sanford School of Medicine at The University of South Dakota and went on to an internal medicine residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She earned her undergraduate degree in biology from South Dakota State University.

PHILADELPHIA (July 21, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Jay Simhan, MD, FACS, who will join Fox Chase and the Temple Health community this summer. In his new role at Fox Chase, Simhan will serve as professor and director of Reconstructive Urology in the Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology. He will also serve as the fellowship director for the Fox Chase Reconstructive Urology fellowship.

PHILADELPHIA (July 21, 2022)— Eighteen nurses representing multiple departments at Fox Chase Cancer Center recently attended the 47th annual Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Congress in Anaheim, Calif. There, they had the opportunity to present research and projects they had conducted over the past year, as well as learn more about oncology nursing from colleagues from around the country.