News & Breakthroughs at Siteman
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In the Media News & Stories
In the Media
Gamma Knife manager’s career combines nursing and law enforcement
In the Media
Phelps County Regional Medical Center joins Siteman Cancer Network
Phelps County Regional Medical Center and the hospital’s Delbert Day Cancer Institute have joined the Siteman Cancer Network to collaborate on efforts to reduce the impact of cancer in south-central Missouri through research, treatment and prevention. The network is affiliated with Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. […]
In the Media
Gift allows Siteman Cancer Center to establish resiliency program for nurses
A $500,000 donation to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will be used to provide resiliency training for nurses at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the School of Medicine. The program will be aimed at improving care for them and, ultimately, their patients. The gift establishes the Josh Gottheil Memorial Endowment […]
In the Media
PECaD’s Manshack Appointed to New ACS Board of Directors
Lindsey Manshack, MPH, a member of Siteman Cancer Center’s Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD), has been appointed to the American Cancer Society (ACS) Missouri Area Board of Directors. In this newly created position, Manshack will work with four other ACS board members to reduce cancer disparities in the Missouri region through creating awareness, fundraising and […]
In the Media, Research
$5 million supports innovative breast cancer trial at Siteman
A $5 million grant from the Department of Defense will support research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis aimed at improving breast cancer therapies. The study, which includes a clinical trial at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the School of Medicine, will focus on HER2-positive breast cancer. Such tumors are dotted with an overabundance […]
In the Media
Jeffrey Bradley, MD, gives commencement address at Drury University
Jeffrey Bradley, MD, a Washington University radiation oncologist at Siteman Cancer Center, gave a commencement address to the graduating class of 2018 at Drury University in Springfield, MO on May 12th. Dr. Bradley, who is a 1989 graduate of Drury University, also received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at the ceremony. Read full […]
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 […]