Fox Chase Cancer Center News

Fox Chase Researcher Receives Department of Defense Grant to Study Racial Disparities in Rectal Cancer Outcomes

PHILADELPHIA (August 10, 2023) — Sanjeevani Arora, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has received a grant of $752,000 from the Department of Defense to study racial disparities in rectal cancer survival. This topic is of particular importance to the DOD because nearly one-third of active-duty service personnel are members of a racial/ethnic minority group that could be affected by such disparities.

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Fox Chase Cancer Center Researcher Receives Grant to Investigate Impact of Diet and Lifestyle on Pancreatic Cancer

PHILADELPHIA (August 9, 2023) — Sanjay S. Reddy, MD, FACS, an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has received an Investigator Initiated Clinical Trial grant from Fox Chase’s Office of Sponsored Research to study the impact of diet and lifestyle factors on pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, or PDAC, the most common form of pancreatic cancer.

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Fox Chase Cancer Center Welcome Dr. Michael G. Tecce

PHILADELPHIA (August 8, 2023) — Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Michael G. Tecce, DO, as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Department of Surgical Oncology.

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Fox Chase Researchers Demonstrate Key Qualities of New Drug Candidate for Pancreatic Tumors

PHILADELPHIA (August 8, 2023) — A new study led by Igor Astsaturov, MD, PhD, Co-Director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center, demonstrates two key components necessary for a new drug candidate, LP-184, to effectively treat pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The findings were published today in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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Fox Chase Cancer Center Welcomes Yu “Sunny” Liu

PHILADELPHIA (August 7, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Yu “Sunny” Liu, PhD, as an assistant professor in the Nuclear Dynamics and Cancer research program and the Cancer Epigenetics Institute (CEI).

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