Sylvester and Florida Panthers Celebrate Hockey Fights Cancer Partnership with $25,000 Donation
November has been an exciting month if you are a Florida Panthers fan or a cancer fighter or survivor. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has been honored to be the official Hockey Fights Cancer partner...
Super Funders Pledge $50 million for South Florida Cancer Research
A grassroots fundraising group that has been fighting cancer for six decades this week made its largest gift ever: $50 million to South Florida’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Pap Corps Champions for Cancer...
University of Miami Cancer Center Announces ‘Historic’ $50 Million Pledge
The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine announced on Thursday that the institution has received a $50 million pledge to fund cancer research. “It’s one of the...
Sylvester Breast Cancer Researchers Receive New Grant from Prevent Cancer Foundation
Dorraya El-Ashry, Ph.D., breast cancer researcher at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate professor of medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, as well as co-principal investigator Marc E. Lippman, M.D.,...
Molecular Diagnostics Separate Malignant from Benign Melanocytic Tumors
Jeong Hee Cho-Vega, M.D., Ph.D., a skin cancer expert at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and colleagues have shown that a relatively simple, multi-step molecular diagnostic...
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Hosts Cancer Moonshot Summit
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine hosted a Cancer Moonshot Summit on June 29 as part of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s nationwide effort to make more...
UHealth Part of Select Collaborative Using IBM’s Watson to Tackle Major Diseases
UHealth – the University of Miami Health System is part of a cognitive imaging collaborative that will be using IBM’s Watson to bring cognitive imaging into daily practice to help physicians address some of...
Sylvester Researchers Expand Firefighters Cancer Initiative with Renewed Funding
Surrounded by firefighters, advocates and lawmakers, researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center announced that they are extending the Firefighters Cancer Initiative started nearly one year ago. The goal of the partnership between South Florida’s...
Eye Color Determines Risk for Cancer
Clinical and epidemiological data have always pointed to eye cancer being more common among those individuals with light eye coloration and fair skin—however, the genetic mechanisms underlying disease development have been largely unknown. Now...
Two Genes May Help Predict Breast Cancer Survival
The activity of two genes may help predict certain breast cancer patients’ chances of survival and guide their treatment, British researchers report. “We have seen major strides in the treatment of breast cancer, but...