Perspectives from those who live it every day.
On May 15, 2018, Skip Viragh’s vision for a single place where cancer patients can receive top-notch outpatient cancer care was realized with the opening… Read More »Welcome to the Skip Viragh Outpatient Cancer Building
Read the latest issue of Promise & Progress featuring research advances in cancer drug discovery and development, promising new cancer drugs, patient stories and more.… Read More »A Look Inside the Kimmel Cancer Center’s Cancer Medicine Cabinet
Bright and early at 6 am on April 16th, Harry J. Duffey Family Patient and Family Services staff members greeted patients clad in t-shirts encouraging… Read More »Starting a Conversation about Advance Directives
Richard Humphrey, a multiple myeloma pioneer who was among our founding Cancer Center faculty members and former director of its diagnostic immunology laboratory, died on… Read More »Remembering Dr. Richard Humphrey, Multiple Myeloma Pioneer
The team of cancer genetics experts that deciphered the genetic blueprints of cancer, have developed two new screening tests that have the promise to detect… Read More »“SEEK” and You May Find Cancer
Prostate cancer is a leading health problem for men. As strategies for prostate cancer screening and active surveillance are refined, men may benefit from early… Read More »Early-Stage Prostate Cancer: To Treat or Not to Treat
The American Cancer Society forecasts that nearly 1.7 million new cancer cases (more than 4,600 each day) and nearly 596,000 cancer deaths will occur in… Read More »Geriatric Oncology: Cancer Care Coming of Age?
All cancers are fundamentally disorders of acquired defects in genes. The genes serve as blueprints for all of the components of cells and tissues in… Read More »The Promise of Precision Medicine
Many types of cancer are caused by gene mutations acquired during a person’s lifetime. Systematic cataloging of these acquired gene defects has led to improved… Read More »Cancer Research: Back to Basics
Kimmel Cancer Center team is among inaugural recipients (Photo: from left: Christine Hann, Russell Hales, Marilyn Holman, Matt Holman, Hanika Reyes Rodavia) Despite being a scientist,… Read More »Patient Creates Award to Distinguish the Best Lung Cancer Doctors and Nurses