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Georgetown Researchers Discover New Ways to Predict Breast Cancer Recurrence

Georgetown Researchers Discover New Ways to Predict Breast Cancer Recurrence

By Ahmad Jandal April 28, 2022

A team of researchers at the Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study on factors that may indicate whether a woman is at risk for redeveloping breast cancer. The...

Lombardi Receives NIH Grant

By Matthew Larson October 20, 2015

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health awarded The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences...

Lombardi Begins Cancer Trial

By Emily Tu September 4, 2015

The Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital embarked on a nationwide clinical trial Sept. 1 that will compare two melanoma drugs. ECOG-ACRIN Cancer...

Dept. of Health Encourages Medical Tourism

By Deirdre Collins November 11, 2014

The Washington, D.C., Department of Health is working to designate MedStar Georgetown University Hospital as an international center of excellence as part of a program to help promote the District as a...

Study: Pictures Deter Smokers

By Deirdre Collins September 30, 2014

Research from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Research Center found that pictorial warnings are more effective at dissuading cigarette usage than messages containing only text, according to a study released...

Lombardi Gala Raises Half-Million

By Laura Wagner November 8, 2013

When NFL players make headlines for their off-the-field exploits, it’s usually bad news. On Saturday, however, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald garnered positive attention when...

GUMC Finds CT Scan May Lower Cancer Fatalities

By Johanna Caldwell November 11, 2010

A study conducted in part at the Medical Center's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center found that screening former and current smokers with a CT scan can reduce lung cancer deaths by 20 percent, according...

Cancer Center Breakthrough May Alter Treatment

By Kelly Church October 25, 2010

Georgetown researchers at Lombardi Cancer Center may have discovered a cancer-killing treatment that implements a cold virus in the destruction of cancer cells. The virus, known as reovirus, is known...

GUMC Granted $7.5 Million

By Dawn Hu March 23, 2010

The National Cancer Institute awarded the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center a $7.5 million grant for the creation of a Center for Cancer Systems Biology to research new advanced methods to prevent and...

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