News & Breakthroughs at Siteman
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In the Media News & Stories
In the Media, Staff/Faculty Update
Medical School faculty named to National Academy of Inventors
Noted innovators Samuel Achilefu, PhD, David Holtzman, MD, and Eric Leuthardt, MD – faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis – have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The 2017 class of NAI fellows was announced Tuesday. They are recognized as fellows for demonstrating innovation in creating and facilitating […]
In the Media, Research, Staff/Faculty Update
Undaunted explorer
Timothy Ley, MD, the Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Professor of Medicine, has been investigating leukemia, particularly acute myeloid leukemia (AML), for decades. A glimpse of his research over just the past 10 to 15 years — featured in journals like Nature, Cell, the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association — illustrates how challenging […]
Clinical, In the Media
New gene-altering treatment offered for blood cancers
Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is one of the first centers nationwide to offer a new immunotherapy that targets certain blood cancers. Newly approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for types of advanced non-Hodgkin lymphoma in adults, the CAR-T cell therapy harnesses a patient’s […]
Clinical, In the Media
Siteman Cancer Center opens expanded St. Charles County facility
Siteman Cancer Center will open its newly expanded and renovated outpatient facility at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital in St. Charles County on May 1. The expansion nearly doubles the facility’s size, to 37,000 square feet. With the larger capacity, additional physicians will be available to see patients in newly added exam and treatment rooms. The […]
In the Media
Siteman Investment Program awards $2.2 million in cancer research grants
Research on breast cancer and the effects of chemotherapy are among the seven projects that will benefit from $2.2 million in new grants announced by Siteman Cancer Center through its Siteman Investment Program. The goal of the grants is to support and accelerate the pace of innovation in cancer research. The money awarded comes from a variety of sources: […]
In the Media
Siteman Cancer Center benefits from QVC Presents “FFANY Shoes on Sale”
QVC and FFANY present a contribution of $300,000 as a result of charitable multiplatform event For more than 20 years, QVC Presents “FFANY Shoes on Sale” has combined great shopping with an even better cause. Last October during the annual charitable shoe sale, more than 80,000 pairs of shoes were purchased at half the manufacturer’s […]
In the Media, Research
Potential drug target identified for deadly brain cancer
Glioblastoma is the most common and deadly form of brain cancer in adults, with an average survival time of only 15 months after diagnosis. New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis provides clues to why some patients with glioblastoma fare worse and identifies a drug target that potentially could improve survival. […]
In the Media, Research
Treating prostate cancer with precision
The treatment, called focal needle ablation, makes use of a needle that can freeze (cryoablation) or use heat (radiofrequency ablation) to destroy cancer cells. In the past, when a biopsy—the standard diagnostic procedure for the past 20 years—detected a small amount of prostate cancer, it wasn’t known whether the cancer was small or whether the biopsy […]
In the Media
Siteman Cancer Center unveils new, state-of-the-art mammography van
Mobile mammography services continue to move forward in the St. Louis region with unveiling of Siteman Cancer Center’s new mammography van. Equipped with high-resolution 3-D digital technology, the van provides the same advanced imaging that patients receive at Siteman’s four St. Louis area mammography clinics. Washington University radiologists who specialize in breast imaging read all […]
In the Media
Washington University leads national effort to improve radiation therapy for U.S. veterans
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has been selected to lead national efforts to improve and standardize radiation therapy for veterans with cancer. The goal is to ensure that veterans across the U.S. receive the same high-quality radiation therapy at any of the 40 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) radiation oncology centers nationwide. Working […]