Keck Medicine of USC - Archive (Cancer)
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2023
April
30,
2023
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12:25 PM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — No one has ever performed a bladder transplant in humans. But that may be about to change.Urologists with Keck Medicine of USC have launched a clinical trial to perform the world’s first human bladder transplant.The trial is actively sc...
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March
30,
2023
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07:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — A newly published study paves the way for some patients with testicular cancer to avoid chemotherapy and radiation.Seminoma is a slow-growing form of testicular cancer that if untreated, typically metastasizes (spreads) to lymph nodes i...
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2022
December
06,
2022
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03:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The Leapfrog Group, a national hospital watchdog organization, has named USC Norris Cancer Hospital a 2022 Top Teaching Hospital. “This prestigious national honor, which highlights a hospital’s achievements in patient safety and quali...
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April
06,
2022
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06:56 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Three years ago, Robert Johnson, 28, had his right leg amputated above the knee due to bone cancer. He was fitted with a prosthetic leg that connected to his residual limb with a cuplike shell or “socket,” traditionally the only type of...
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April
04,
2022
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Keck Medicine of USC has expanded access to oncology services in Orange County with the opening of a new location in Newport Beach specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of cancers and blood disorders.The 33,000-squ...
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2021
October
11,
2021
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04:36 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Keck Medicine of USC, has launched a global registration, phase 2 clinical trial investigating the efficacy of a potential new breast cancer therapy called ARX788.The trial is currently re...
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September
29,
2021
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11:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Women may miss their regular cancer screenings for a variety of reasons, which have become more complicated during the pandemic. September is gynecologic cancer awareness month and October is breast cancer awareness month. With women’s ...
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September
23,
2021
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07:05 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Brain metastasis occurs when cancer in one part of the body spreads to the brain. The lifetime incidence of such metastatic brain tumors in cancer patients is between 20%-45%, research shows.A new study from USC Norris Comprehensive Can...
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September
15,
2021
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07:05 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common form of liver cancer and the fastest-growing cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, according to national cancer statistics.Historically, the rates of HCC are lower in rura...
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August
02,
2021
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06:02 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women and surgery is a primary treatment for these women. Among women receiving surgery, up to 13% will have a post-operative visit to an emergency department, according...
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June
10,
2021
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07:05 AM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Caryn Lerman, PhD, director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Keck Medicine of USC, has been named president of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI).Lerman joined the AACI Board of Directors in 2019 ...
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2020
September
18,
2020
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06:04 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men except for skin cancers, according to the American Cancer Society. However, innovations in diagnostics and treatment have made prostate cancer a very treatable disease, with a 98% five-year su...
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September
08,
2020
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Innovative, minimally invasive treatment can help maintain prostate cancer patients’ quality of life
For some prostate cancer patients, radical treatment (surgery or radiation) are treatment standards. However, these procedures may cause side effects including urinary incontinence or impotency.
A new study from USC Urology with Keck Medicine of U...
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June
29,
2020
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13:49 PM
America/Los_Angeles
LOS ANGELES — USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck Medicine of USC and the Keck School of Medicine of USC today announced a $5 million gift from the Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Charitable Foundation. The gift was received from Harold R. Brow...
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2019
June
14,
2019
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05:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., expected to cause about 51,000 deaths in 2019. But until now, it was unclear which drugs were most effective for which patients.
Researchers at the USC Norris Comprehensi...
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May
01,
2019
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12:09 PM
America/Los_Angeles
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has launched a study to determine how financial assistance for costs associated with clinical trial participation might increase enrollment, particularly among low-income patients and racial and ethnic minoritie...
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February
15,
2019
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11:21 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a new laboratory tool, which is poised to improve the development and effectiveness of a burgeoning group of therapies that use patients’ immune systems to fight cancer with genetically...
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February
11,
2019
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12:54 PM
America/Los_Angeles
The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, the highest-ranked cancer care provider in Southern California, announces the appointment of Caryn Lerman, PhD, as the center’s new director, effective March 15. She also will hold the position of professo...
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2018
November
05,
2018
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12:07 PM
America/Los_Angeles
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed internationally recognized cancer researcher and advocate Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH, as the first associate director of community outreach and engagement. Baezconde-Garbanati will lever...
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June
18,
2018
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05:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Each year, more than 1 million Americans are diagnosed with adult-onset diabetes mellitus, also known as Type 2 diabetes. The new diagnosis comes with a long list of potential complications: high blood pressure, nerve damage, kidney disease, stroke, ...
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April
23,
2018
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14:27 PM
America/Los_Angeles
The division of gynecologic oncology at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a $1.1 million estate gift from a grateful former patient, establishing the Hilda and Bruno Haug Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. The funds were donated towa...
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January
09,
2018
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12:15 PM
America/Los_Angeles
A team of scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC is looking to some deep sea dwellers to create a better way to develop cancer-fighting therapies. Harnessing the power of the enzymes that give these marine animals the ability to glow, the t...
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