News : UPCI

CHICAGO, June 9 – Shannon Puhalla, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and breast oncologist with the Magee-Womens Cancer Program of UPMC Cancer Centers, has received a 2010 Career Development Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
The award provides $200,000 over three years for physicians in their first to third year of practice to...

CHICAGO, June 7 – An educational session exploring the complexities of oral chemotherapy, a development in cancer treatment that has occurred over the last decade, will be chaired today by Merrill Egorin, M.D., professor of medicine and pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), at...
Traditionally, cancer patients have received chemotherapy intravenously while under the care of...

PITTSBURGH, June 1 – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and the School of Medicine have discovered that inhibiting a key molecule in a DNA repair pathway could provide the means to make cancer cells more sensitive to radiation therapy while protecting healthy cells.
The findings are published in Science Signaling and provide new insights into mechanisms of how the body fixes...