News & Breakthroughs at Siteman
Stay informed with the latest cancer news and breakthroughs from Siteman Cancer Center. Our news feed provides timely updates on research breakthroughs, clinical trials, and community events.
In the Media, Research, Staff/Faculty Update
WashU researchers at Siteman honored with NIH Director’s awards
Three investigators recognized by high-risk, high-reward research program Three WashU researchers at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine have received prestigious and highly competitive awards through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. The awards support unconventional approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research. Andrew L. Young, […]
In the Media, Staff/Faculty Update
Eberlein named President-Elect of American College of Surgeons
Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, FACS, director of Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine, has been elected president-elect of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). The three-year commitment includes one-year terms each as president-elect, president and immediate past-president. Eberlein began his term as president-elect after ACS’s annual meeting this month in Chicago. With […]
Health & Wellness, In the Media
It’s never too late for those with cancer to quit smoking
Smoking cessation program developed by WashU Medicine researchers at Siteman Cancer Center is more effective at prolonging life than some chemotherapies Around 25% of people with cancer in the U.S. are active smokers when they are diagnosed, and studies have found that many of them continue to smoke during treatment. This may be due in […]
Health & Wellness, Patient Resource, Prevention
For Your Health: How sleep and exercise can help kids’ health and grades
Now that kids are back in school, families are settling into their new routines after a long summer break. It can certainly be a busy time for everyone. But this transition can also be a great opportunity to help our kids — and our households — build healthy behaviors that can carry through the year, […]
In the Media, Staff/Faculty Update
Kim and Tim Eberlein receive Harris Award
Kim and Timothy J. “Tim” Eberlein were honored with the 2025 Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award during an Aug. 22 luncheon at the Whittemore House. Mary McKay, vice provost for interdisciplinary initiatives at Washington University in St. Louis, hosted the luncheon. Chancellor Andrew D. Martin presented the Eberleins with the award. […]
Educational, Patient Resource
Finding comfort again: gentle vaginal dryness moisturizers after cancer
If you’re facing vaginal dryness, painful sex or low libido after cancer treatment, please know this: you’re not alone and there is help. Many women treated with chemotherapy, radiation, or hormone therapy (like tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors) experience changes that make intimacy uncomfortable and painful, and understandably lower interest in sex, too. There are many […]
In the Media, Research
Working together, cells extend their senses
New research from Amit Pathak’s lab has implications for tracking cancer The story of the princess and the pea evokes an image of a highly sensitive royal young woman so refined, she can sense a pea under a stack of mattresses. When it comes to human biology, it also takes an abnormal individual to sense […]
Clinical, In the Media, Research
1,000th patient treated at Siteman with AI-enabled radiation therapy system
Combining artificial intelligence (AI) with advanced imaging, the technology supports more precise, personalized daily treatments by WashU Medicine physicians Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine has treated its 1,000th patient using state-of-the art radiation therapy technology that allows physicians to update a patient’s treatment plan on each day of treatment. Called adaptive […]
Health & Wellness, Patient Resource, Prevention
For Your Health: 15 small steps with big rewards
Surveys show that most of us place a high priority on our health and wellness. That’s probably not surprising to hear. But as common a goal as improving health is, it can sometimes feel like a mystery how we can actually work toward it, with busy days filled with work, family and other important activities. […]
Research
Study sheds light on how pediatric brain tumors grow
Blocking a chemical messenger in the brain that helps tumor cells multiply could offer new route to treatment The most common type of brain tumor in children, pilocytic astrocytoma (PA), accounts for about 15% of all pediatric brain tumors. Although this type of tumor is usually not life-threatening, the unchecked growth of tumor cells can […]