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Covert operations: Surgeons hide scars in new breast surgery technique
A new surgical technique means disfiguring surgical scars may be avoidable for women who face breast cancer surgery. Kristine Keeney, MD, and Mary Ellen Greco, MD, are both certified in Hidden Scar...
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Hunting for cancer: Doctors ‘stage’ cancer to create prognosis, treatment...
BY JIM HOWE Before a patient starts treatment at the Upstate Cancer Center, a medical team evaluates the cancer in a process called staging. Staging determines the extent of cancer in the body, based...
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Useful information about cancer is a click away
Where can you find reliable, up-to-date information about cancer online? Upstate Health Sciences Library The staff at the Upstate Health Sciences library strives to connect the community with health...
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Did you know? The scientist who discovered genetically inherited breast...
In 1990, her laboratory zeroed in on chromosome 17q21 to prove that breast cancer is genetically inherited in some families. The scientists working with Mary-Claire King, PhD, called this particular...
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Revealing research: Kidney tumor analysis helps decipher proteins’ role in...
The June issue of the global scientific journal Nature Communications features work by (pictured, from left) graduate student Diana Dunn; research assistant Mark Woodford; biochemist/molecular...
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Scientists explore genetic roots of rare blood cancer
Golam Mohi, PhD Scientists at Upstate have made progress in understanding the cause of a rare blood cancer called myelofibrosis, and they hope to learn how to block the disease’s progression. Professor...
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Multiple myeloma is his opponent – and so far, he’s winning
BY SUSAN KEETER Jack Durr sees the oncology team at the Upstate Cancer Center’s office in Oneida for most appointments. Having chemotherapy treatments, blood tests and checkups close to his home in...
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Upstate is the place to go for pancreatic cancer treatment
Outside of New York City, Upstate is the only institution in the state that the National Pancreas Foundation has designated as an NPF Center for the Care and Treatment of Pancreatic Disease. The...
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With lung cancer at bay, she’s cruising Florida coast on her Harley
Toni Lindgren on the motorcycle she and her husband bought for her after her chemotherapy treatments for lung cancer. This winter, she is riding it along the eastern coast of Florida. (PHOTO BY SUSAN...
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World traveler … and grateful lung cancer patient
Upstate oncologist Ajeet Gajra, MD, and his patient Patricia Kranbuhl. BY BETHANN KISTNER Nearly three years ago, Patricia Kranbuhl was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. After participating in a...
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Cancer patient as a child, now a cancer nurse
Nurse manager Nellie Diez. (PHOTO BY KATHLEEN PAICE FROIO) BY AMBER SMITH Nellie Diez remembers being startled by her mother, whose first name she shares, as a 12-year-old in treatment for cancer....
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Removing a hidden cancer: Surgeon avoided nerves when he removed prostate;...
Patrick Young wears a necklace in memory of his mother, who died at age 59 from lung cancer. She taught him to hunt. The necklace is made from antlers of the first deer Young shot, plus wooden and...
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Preserving future fatherhood This service helps boys and men with cancer...
Kazim Chohan, PhD (seated), leads Upstate’s Male Fertility Preservation Program, which came about through the efforts of Chohan and colleagues including pediatric oncologist Jody Sima, MD (standing);...
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Oneida High School student learns to live with brain cancer
Breonna Popluhar is a junior at Oneida High School. (PHOTO BY SUSAN KAHN) BY JIM HOWE A run of severe headaches over a couple of weeks in 2015 led to an Oneida teen’s diagnosis of brain cancer. “I...
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Recipe: Fudge Pudding Cake With Ice Cream
Dessert can be an important part of a meal for cancer patients because it often provides plenty of calories per bite. If the patient feels too full to eat this dessert after a meal, he or she can try...
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Up Close images: Raising awareness about cancer
Light-filled luminarias greeted visitors to the Upstate Cancer Center for the annual Lung Cancer Vigil on a crisp autumn evening in November. Indoors, the Rev. Terry Culbertson asked visitors to set...
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Upstate news you may have missed
Kelli Maher (left) donated one of her kidneys in September to help someone in need, but she did not know whose life she saved until two days before Christmas. That’s when she met Cecilia Brown, 8, a...
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Team tackles complex skin cancers
Members of the multidisciplinary melanoma team, from left: surgeon Scott Albert, MD; medical oncologist Adham Jurdi, MD; medical oncologist Abirami Sivapiragasam, MD (known as Abby Siva, MD); and...
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Screening recommendations change for prostate cancer — here’s why
Upstate Cancer Center interim director Jeffrey Bogart, MD, left, and Ronald Chen, MD, a cancer specialist and researcher from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chen spoke at Upstate...
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9 things to know about brain and spinal cord tumors in children
BY AMBER SMITH Cancers of the brain and spinal cord have surpassed leukemia as the largest cause of cancer death in children. It’s not because there are more brain and spinal cord tumors. Rather,...
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