Center News & Funding, Research, Prevention & Control, Clinical, Technology
Sep 27, 2024
About half of women who are 40 or older in the United States have dense breast tissue. This type of tissue not only puts them at higher risk of developing breast cancer – it also makes it harder for clinicians to detect it in mammograms. In September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released ...
Research, Clinical, Technology
Aug 29, 2024
Navid Fallahi knew there had to be a better way. Fallahi, M.D., is a fourth-year clinical resident at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Medicine and Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center. Cervical and uterine cancers present significant challenges in his specialty – radiation oncology – and ...
Community Engagement & Health Equity, Clinical, Prevention & Control, Technology
Jul 24, 2024
VCU Health is rolling out an innovative solution to common problems across healthcare systems – wait times and access to timely care. This solution just happens to have 18 wheels and state-of-the-art technology. A new 50-foot trailer will travel between three VCU Health and VCU Massey Comprehensive ...
Center News & Funding, Research, Technology
Sep 21, 2023
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in American men, and even deadlier among African American men, who are diagnosed younger and at increased risk for the disease compared to white or Hispanic men. Risk also increases with age and in those with a family history of pro...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research, Prevention & Control, Clinical, Adult Outpatient Pavilion, Diet & Nutrition, Technology
Jun 09, 2023
Leaders from Virginia Commonwealth University and across the commonwealth came together to celebrate VCU Massey Cancer Center’s comprehensive designation from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on Thursday, June 8. Robert A. Winn, M.D., Massey director and Lipman Chair in Oncology, was joined by ...
Center News & Funding, Adult Outpatient Pavilion, Clinical, Technology
Dec 06, 2021
VCU Massey Cancer Center at the Adult Outpatient Pavilion is now open! Located just off I-95, VCU Health’s new 17-story Adult Outpatient Pavilion is conveniently located at the corner of North 10th and East Leigh streets, on the MCV campus in downtown Richmond. The new 615,000-square foot facility c...
Center News & Funding, Clinical, Technology
Dec 01, 2021
Beginning Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, VCU Massey Cancer Center will go live with Epic, a modern electronic health record (EHR) widely used by academic health systems, hospitals and large medical practices nationwide. All Massey locations and clinics are adopting the new system on the same day, with the...
Technology
Apr 11, 2016
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common form of primary brain cancer diagnosed in adults and expected to affect more than 12,000 individuals in the U.S. this year alone, according to the American Brain Tumor Association. For those who are diagnosed with GBM, there have traditionally been ve...
Technology
May 02, 2014
An estimated 30 to 40 percent of cancer patients treated with chemotherapy experience pain, according to the National Cancer Institute. Known as chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), CIPN can produce sharp pains, numbness, tingling and or burning sensations in the hands and feet of canc...
Technology
Aug 28, 2013
VCU Massey Cancer Center has made a significant investment in improving the region’s cancer care by becoming the only cancer care provider in Richmond to utilize the TrueBeam™ linear accelerator. This advanced machine made by Varian Medical Systems incorporates the latest image-guided radiation ther...
Technology
Apr 02, 2012
New technology from ApoCell, Inc. that can detect liver cancer cells circulating in a patient’s bloodstream may remove the need for potentially dangerous liver biopsies, be used as a screening tool and, ultimately, speed up drug development, according to a pilot study presented this week by Virginia...
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