PHILADELPHIA (August 15, 2017) – Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Reza Nejati, MD, as a hematopathologist in the Department of Pathology.
PHILADELPHIA (August 8, 2017) – As chief, one of his top priorities will be strengthening cancer research efforts, especially enrolling more patients in the many clinical trials underway at both Fox Chase and Temple University Hospital (TUH).
PHILADELPHIA (August 3, 2017) – Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to welcome Emmanuel T. Quien, MD, to the Department of Hematology/Oncology. He will continue to provide clinical services at the Temple Health Northeastern Ambulatory Care campus as well as on-site and on-call support to the hematology program at Jeanes Hospital.
PHILADELPHIA (July 14, 2017) – Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to welcome Hayley E. Walker, MD, to the Department of Medicine as a hospitalist. She will begin at Fox Chase on July 15, 2017.
PHILADELPHIA (July 13, 2017) – Fox Chase Cancer Center announced the results of its 2017 Supported Pilot Project and Supported High Throughput Screening Project competitions. Several researchers will receive funding as part of the center’s Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) from the National Cancer Institute. Three pilot projects and one high throughput screening project were recognized.
PHILADELPHIA (July 11, 2017) -The Pain & Palliative Care Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center is proud to offer a new Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship in partnership with the Hospice of the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia and Temple University Hospital. The one-year program is approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
PHILADELPHIA (July 10, 2017) – Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have identified the specific ways in which the CCDC170 gene may influence breast cancer risk or progression. The laboratories of Xiaowei Chen, PhD, and Richard A. Katz, PhD, have discovered a function for the CCDC170 protein that suggests a mechanism related to the hallmark changes in cell movement seen in breast cancer.
PHILADELPHIA, (July 5, 2017) – Fox Chase Cancer Center announced the addition of the Discovery™ NM750b Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI) system as a complementary diagnostic tool to detect breast cancer after a questionable mammogram. MBI is now available to help physicians in the Philadelphia area detect early stage cancers even in dense breast tissue.