Fox Chase Cancer Center News

Fox Chase Cancer Center Welcomes Yash Chhabra

PHILADELPHIA (February 9, 2024) — Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Yash Chhabra, PhD, as an Assistant Professor in the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program, where he will focus on the influence of sex disparity in cancer and aging.
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New Fox Chase Study Finds Immunotherapy Effective for Both Black and White Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

PHILADELPHIA (January 26, 2024) — While race can influence treatment recommendations for certain forms of cancer, a new study presented today by researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center has shown that immune checkpoint inhibitor-based treatment (ICI), a type of immunotherapy, is an equally effective frontline treatment for both Black and white patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
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Nursing Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health Receive $564,000 Grant to Increase Clinical Trial Enrollment of Underrepresented Kidney Cancer Patients

PHILADELPHIA (January 24, 2024) — A team of nursing researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health has received a $564,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to fund research into increasing clinical trial enrollment of underrepresented kidney cancer patients by making it easier for them to participate in such trials.
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Herk’s Heroes Formalizes Its Efforts to Comfort and Support Cancer Patients

Inside every Chemo Comfort Bag is a little piece of the memory of Jerry “Herk” Hertkorn. This past year, his daughter, Fox Chase Cancer Center nurse practitioner Caryn Vadseth, MSN, CRNP , AGPCNP-BC, OCN, turned the group she created in his memory, Herk’s Heroes, into an official 501(c)3 charitable organization with the mission to provide comfort and support to cancer patients.

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