Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD, and colleagues assessed the concordance of pathogenic variants (genetic mutations associated with cancer) detected in tissue samples and cfDNA from 300 metastatic breast cancer patients.
Kathryn Lindley, MD, has joined the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute (VHVI) as director of the new Women’s Heart Center. The Center will provide multidisciplinary care for women’s cardiovascular health across the lifespan, from adolescent through geriatric populations.
Luke and Susan Simons recently made a gift to establish the Susan and Luke Simons Directorship at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
“It has been a 17-year journey, and all of us at Vanderbilt have had to defend our findings with a number of entities,” Miller said.
Last month, the …
Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital (VWCH) has launched a percutaneous coronary intervention program to treat patients diagnosed with heart attacks and coronary artery disease.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center was recently listed as a Designated Scleroderma Research and Treatment Center by the National Scleroderma Foundation.
“Antibiotic allergy delabeling prior to transplant is safe, is of high value and should definitely be considered in the pre-transplant evaluation period,” said Cosby Stone Jr., MD, MPH, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
Wade Iams, MD, MSCI, Travis Osterman, DO, MS, and colleagues report the case of a patient with metastatic ALK-rearranged NSCLC who was treated with the ALK inhibitor alectinib throughout two pregnancies.
