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Saving lives

New treatments improve outlook for pancreatic cancer patients

Oct. 21, 2009 -- A team of surgeons and oncologists at the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital is aggressively tackling pancreatic cancer — one of the deadliest forms of cancer — and conducting clinical trials of innovative treatment regimens.


Spoken with feeling

StoryCorps captures stories from cancer survivors and their children

Sept. 28, 2009 --
Cancer survivor Kathy Ferrara and daughter Natalie continue their dialogue after participating in StoryCorps, a national oral history and research project.
Cancer is a difficult diagnosis to acknowledge — especially what a parent with can-cer must explain. A StoryCorps project captures the emotional stories of survivors and may help others to say what must be said.


Estrogen benefit

Low-dose estrogen shown safe and effective for metastatic breast cancer

Aug. 18, 2009 --
When estrogen-lowering drugs no longer control metastatic breast cancer, the opposite strategy might work. Raising estrogen levels benefited 30 percent of women whose metastatic breast cancer no longer responded to standard anti-estrogen treatment, according to research conducted at the School of Medicine and collaborating institutions.



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Faculty Experts:

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Graham Colditz

Associate Director, Prevention and Control, Siteman Cancer Center

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Dr. Colditz is an Epidemiologist and Associate Director for Prevention and Control at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. He is the Niess-Gain Family Professor in Medicine, Department of Surgery, at Washington ...



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Dione Farria

Assistant Professor of Radiology

Dione Farria is Co-Director for the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) and an assistant professor of Radiology, Division of Diagnostic Radiology, Section of Breast Imaging. She is certified by the American Board of Radiology and American Board of ...


Expertise: Breast imaging, breast cancer, doctor-patient communication

Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu


David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D.

Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology

Gutmann is the founder and director of the Neurofibromatosis Clinical Program, which is dedicated to treating the common inherited tumor predisposition syndrome, neurofibromatosis (NF). Individuals with NF have an increased risk of developing brain tumors and other cancers. As national leader in the ...


Expertise: Brain tumors, cancer genetics, neurofibromatosis, molecular genetics, neurosciences, neurology

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu


Frank Yin

Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering; The Stephen and Camilla Brauer Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering

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Frank C. P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, is a world-renowned biomedical engineer. Yin heads a dynamic, young department, not yet five years old and already ranked among the top 20 in the nation. ...


Expertise: soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, hemodynamics

Direct contact: (314) 935-6164 / yin@wustl.edu


Katherine Jahnige Mathews

assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology

Katherine Jahnige Mathews
Katherine Jahnige Mathews

An estimated 72 million Americans are either uninsured or underinsured, making their access to health care precarious. Additionally, wide disparities in heath care are pervasive. Mathews works on the frontlines to provide healthcare to uninsured and underinsured patients. She has developed community-based ...


Expertise: Health care disparities, access to health care

Direct contact: (314) 286-0109 / arbanasc@wustl.edu



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Pancreatic Cancer Deaths Higher for Blacks
U.S. News & World Report online and 9 others

Sept. 3, 2009 -- Even after eliminating known pancreatic cancer risk factors, such as smoking and obesity, blacks still had a 42 percent higher risk of dying from the disease than their white counterparts, according to a WUSTL-led study, which appears online in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.


Take charge of your checkup
MSNBC.com

Aug. 24, 2009 -- Medical tests are no fun, so why take them twice? People often end up with inadvertently skewed results, but some simple prep work will ensure that your numbers are accurate. Includes advice from WUSTL researchers on how not to skew the PSA (prostate cancer screening) exam.


Ultra-tiny 'bees' target tumors
CNN International and 1 others

Aug. 18, 2009 -- Another report on the use of nanobees -- tiny particles designed to destroy cancer cells by delivering a synthesized version of toxin called melittin that is found in bees.
Samuel Wickline, director of WUSTL's Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, explains how it works.
Nanobees are one of the latest examples of how nanotechnology may change the way diseases are treated.


Genome of Leukemia Patient Reveals Common Mutations
U.S. News & World Report online and 13 others

Aug. 6, 2009 -- Decoding the genome of a man with acute myeloid leukemia revealed genetic mutations that may be common among other cancer patients. The findings could help scientists understand the genetic basis of cancer. Includes comments by WUSTL researchers Richard Wilson, co-author and director of the Genome Center, and Timothy Ley, study senior author and medicine professor.


Elaine Mardis and Richard Wilson: Taking Cancer's Genetic Measure
U.S. News & World Report online

July 1, 2009 -- WUSTL biochemists Elaine Mardis and Richard Wilson helped decode the human genome and are now working to find genetic mutations associated with acute myeloid leukemia.



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