Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (September 3, 2019) — Fox Chase Cancer Center will hold its 20th annual Paws for the Cause, hosted by the Board of Associates, on Sunday, October 6, 2019, from 9:00 am to 12 pm.

PHILADELPHIA (September 3, 2019) – September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness month. The American Cancer Society (ACS) reports that prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men, other skin cancer.

PHILADELPHIA — (August 28, 2019) Dietmar J. Kappes, PhD, has received a five-year, $626,072 grant from The National Institutes of Health to investigate the role of the immune gene ThPOK in breast cancer.

PHILADELPHIA (August 28, 2019)–Jaye Gardiner, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Edna Cukierman laboratory at Fox Chase Cancer Center,  received a $163,500 grant from the American Cancer Society to support her research into the role of the tumor stroma in pancreatic cancer.

PHILADELPHIA (August 27, 2019) – New insights from researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center into the structure of full-length human phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) may aid ongoing efforts to develop effective treatments for the metabolism disorder phenylketonuria (PKU).

PHILADELPHIA (August 27, 2019) – The presence or absence of certain immune cells in patients with localized kidney cancer was associated with the likelihood that the tumor would return after surgical removal, according to a new study from researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center.

PHILADELPHIA (August 26, 2019) – Ipafricept will not be studied further for platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer after an early clinical trial revealed increased likelihood for bone toxicity at its most efficacious doses.

PHILADELPHIA (August 26, 2019) - A recent study from a researcher at Fox Chase Cancer Center found that incidence rates of tonsil cancer in the United States are increasing in both high and low socioeconomic groups. This trend has been attributed to increasing chronic oral infections with HPV.