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Smilow Town Hall I look forward to seeing all of you at our Smilow Cancer Hospital Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, February 2 at 11:30 AM in the auditorium at 55 Park Street. Abe Lopman, Cathy Lyons, Peter Marks, and I will be sharing the latest information operations at Smilow and our goals for the coming months. We also welcome your suggestions and comments and look forward to hearing from you during the meeting. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend. |
Cardio-Oncology Program Launches
Dr. Kerry Russell and Dr. Raymond Russell, Associate Professors of Medicine (Cardiology), have launched a Cardio-Oncology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital to help address the cardio-toxic side effects of chemotherapy treatment, as well as the confounding problem of coexisting cardiac disease and cancer. In addition, the program provides pre-surgical and pre-treatment cardiac evaluation for patients with cancer. Patients can be referred to the program by calling (203) 785-2241. |
Notables Sharon Goldberg has been named Assistant Director of the Clinical Trials Office (CTO). Sharon joined Yale Cancer Center from the NYU Cancer Center and brings in depth regulatory, budget, and clinical trials operational experience to the CTO. She will oversee the expansion of project management and regulatory services and work closely with Dr. Durivage on a number of initiatives, including standardized operational procedures and better orientation and training of all CTO staff. Charleen Campbell, RN, has been hired by the Clinical Trials Office as a research nurse. Brie Hamel was promoted to Project Manager for the Clinical Trials Office. She is assigned to support the thoracic oncology and genitourinary disease programs.
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Newly Opened Clinical Trials HIC 1008007316 Principal Investigator: Howard Hochster, MD A Phase III Randomized, Double Blind Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Perifosine Plus Capecitabine Versus Placebo Plus Capecitabine in Patients with Refractory Colorectal Cancer HIC 1007007079 Principal Investigator: Harriet Kluger, MDA Phase I Dose Escalation Study of ARQ 736 in Adult Subjects with Advanced Solid Tumors Harboring BRAF Mutations HIC 1002006325 Principal Investigator: Julie Ann Sosa, MDA Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Phase III Study of OSI-906 in Patients with Locally Advanced or Metastatic Adrenocortical Carcinoma HIC 1008007318 Principal Investigator: Francine Foss, MDProspective, Longitudinal Multinational Registry of Patients with Newly Diagnosed Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma HIC 1010007456 Principal Investigator: Nina Kadan-Lottick, MDExercise Intervention Feasibility Study |
Funding Opportunities Lasker Medical Research Awards To recognize and honor individuals who have made significant contributions in basic or clinical research in diseases that are the main cause of death and disability. The awards are intended to recognize contributions that have opened new fields of research, advancing novel concepts or their applications in a particular biomedical discipline.
The deadline for submitting a nomination and all supporting materials is February 1, 2011. Learn More >> |
Recent Publications
Enhanced Stimulation of Anti-Ovarian Cancer CD8(+) T Cells by Dendritic Cells Loaded with Nanoparticle Encapsulated Tumor Antigen. Hanlon DJ, Aldo PB, Devine L, Alvero AB, Engberg AK, Edelson R, Mor G.
Am J Reprod Immunol. 2011 Jan 18.
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Genome-wide methylation analysis identifies involvement of TNF-α mediated cancer pathways in prostate cancer. Kim SJ, Kelly WK, Fu A, Haines K, Hoffman A, Zheng T, Zhu Y.
Cancer Lett. 2011 Jan 13.
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Lymphangiogenesis linked to VEGF-C from tumor-associated macrophages: accomplices to metastasis by cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma?
Kluger MS, Colegio OR.
J Invest Dermatol. 2011 Jan;131(1):17-9.
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miR-29 and miR-30 regulate B-Myb expression during cellular senescence. Martinez I, Cazalla D, Almstead LL, Steitz JA, Dimaio D.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jan 11;108(2):522-7.
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The needs for men undergoing active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer: results of a focus group study. Kazer MW, Bailey DE Jr, Colberg J, Kelly WK, Carroll P.
J Clin Nurs. 2011 Feb;20(3-4):581-586.
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Methodological issues in comparative effectiveness research: clinical trials. Peduzzi P, Kyriakides T, O'Connor TZ, Guarino P, Warren SR, Huang GD.
Am J Med. 2010 Dec;123(12 Suppl 1):e8-15.
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A unique case of rhabdoid tumor presenting as hemoperitoneum in an infant. Malhotra Y, Fitzgerald TN, Jubinsky PT, Harper H, Silva CT, Zambrano E, Diefenbach KA, Moss RL, Bhandari V.
J Pediatr Surg. 2011 Jan;46(1):247-51.
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Self-management: Enabling and empowering patients living with cancer as a chronic illness. McCorkle R, Ercolano E, Lazenby M, Schulman-Green D, Schilling LS, Lorig K, Wagner EH.
CA Cancer J Clin. 2011 Jan-Feb;61(1):50-62.
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Rare BRCA1 haplotypes including 3'UTR SNPs associated with breast cancer risk. Pelletier C, Speed WC, Paranjape T, Keane K, Blitzblau R, Hollestelle A, Safavi K, Ouweland AV, Zelterman D, Slack FJ, Kidd KK, Weidhass JB.
Cell Cycle. 2011 Jan 1;10(1).
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Pre-analytic variables and phospho-specific antibodies: the Achilles heel of immunohistochemistry.
Siddiqui S, Rimm DL.
Breast Cancer Res. 2010 Dec 20;12(6):113.
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Immune reconstitution is preserved in hematopoietic stem cell transplant co-administered with regulatory T cells for GVHD prevention. Gaidot A, Landau DA, Martin GH, Bonduelle O, Grinberg-Bleyer Y, Matheoud D, Grégoire S, Baillou C, Combadière B, Piaggio E, Cohen JL.
Blood. 2010 Dec 30.
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Regulatory T cell content in the bone marrow graft does not predict the occurrence of acute GVHD.
Rosenzwajg M, Dhedin N, Maury S, Bensimon G, Landau DA, Norol F, Trebeden-Negre H, Uzunov M, Vernant JP, Klatzmann D, Cohen JL.
Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2010 Aug 4.
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New Faculty Recruits (May 2009 - Present) Anees Chagpar Surgical Oncology Lieping Chen Immunobiology
Deborah Chirnomas Pediatric Oncology Leonard Farber Medical Oncology Mark Faries Surgical Oncology Valentina Greco Genetics Roy Herbst Medical Oncology Howard Hochster Medical Oncology Erin Hofstatter Medical Oncoloy Nina Horowitz Surgical Oncology Michael Hurwitz Medical Oncology Benjamin Judson Otolaryngology
Arthur Levy Medical Oncology Miguel Materin Ophthalmology Daniel Morgensztern Medical Oncology Don Nguyen Pathology Abhijit Patel Therapeutic Radiology Nikolai Podoltsev Hematology
Katie Politi Pathology Tara Sanft Medical Oncology Stacey Stein Medical Oncology Narendra Wajapeyee Pathology Qin Yan Pathology |
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