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Complete and complex: More cancer patients benefit from molecular diagnostics
This image, made with fluorescent probes, shows amplification of HER2, a gene that can play a role in breast cancer. (from the lab of Steven Sperber, PhD) BY AMBER SMITH We are used to differentiating...
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Recipe: Chicken and White Bean Soup
You can have “homemade” chicken soup quickly with the help of a store-bought rotisserie chicken. The mildly seasoned plain or lemon pepper chickens are recommended. This soup uses protein-packed beans...
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At higher risk for breast cancer, she’s vigilant about self-exams and doctor...
The flowers on Dakoata Wilcox’s forearm are a memorial to her mother, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30 and died of a stroke at age 40. (Photo by Susan Kahn) BY SUSAN KEETER Dakoata Wilcox...
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Science Is Art: Close-up of a cancer cell
(Image courtesy of Anushree Gulvady and the lab of Christopher Turner, PhD) Turner Gulvady Cell and developmental biologists including Anushree Gulvady are studying how cancer invades and metastasizes...
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Cancer Center expansion makes way for more patients, infusion rooms
The lobby of the newly opened fourth floor in the Upstate Cancer Center. (photos by Richard Whelsky) When the Upstate Cancer Center opened its doors in July 2014, only the first three floors of the...
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Harnessing his immune system to fight cancer
Eugene Young talks with his oncologist, Abi Siva, MD, about encouraging results of immunotherapy medication. (photo by Richard Whelsky) BY AMBER SMITH The tumors near Eugene Young’s liver turned up by...
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Will immunotherapy work for your cancer?
BY AMBER SMITH Our immune system fights off colds. Why not cancer? Stephen Graziano, MD. (photo by Robert Mescavage) “Cancers develop mechanisms to get around the immune system,” explains Stephen...
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New option for breast cancer treatment combines surgery with radiation
From left, breast surgeons Mary Ellen Greco, MD, Lisa Lai, MD, and Kristine Keeney, MD, and radiation oncologist Anna Shapiro, MD, in the operating room with the new intraoperative radiation therapy...
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Do you always need chemotherapy for breast cancer?
Oncologist explains research that informs, personalizes treatment options for women BY AMBER SMITH Results of an international study — which includes some Central New York women who are patients at...
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Baseball-loving former patient, family pitch in to comfort kids with cancer
Baseball pitcher and cancer survivor Jack Sheridan, now a sophomore at Le Moyne College, is shown in the team colors of his high school, Christian Brothers Academy. He is a board member of On My...
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Giving hope to youth affected by cancer
Charlie Poole at the H.O.P.E. event in May at the Baldwinsville YMCA with, from left, his mother, Lynda Poole, and Upstate Cancer Center nurse Kristen Thomas and social worker Stephanie Barry. In a...
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15 words for the newly diagnosed
Understanding this vocabulary may help you understand your cancer Active surveillance – a treatment plan that involves closely watching a patient’s condition but not giving any treatment unless there...
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How to protect yourself from colorectal cancer
Jiri Bem, MD Sekou Rawlins, MD BY AMBER SMITH Colorectal cancer kills some 50,000 men and women in America every year. The death rate could decrease by 90 percent, says Jiri Bem, MD,...
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National media featuring Lola Muñoz raise attention for deadly brain cancer
Lola Muñoz hoped the treatment she received in a clinical trial would help other cancer patients. (photos by Moriah Ratner) BY AMBER SMITH Photographs of a 12-year-old patient of Melanie Comito, MD,...
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A dad’s perspective on his child’s cancer
Theron Blair’s elder son, Trey, 7, has leukemia. In the two years since his son’s diagnosis, Blair has learned what it takes to be the parent of a kid with cancer. He shares his insights: Theron Blair...
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Mind-set to thrive optimizes quality of life
Kaushal Nanavati, MD, leads meditation in the meditation room at the Upstate Cancer Center. In the back, from left, are medical students Megan Taggart and Alison Stedman and intern Amani Mike. (photo...
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Up close: Cancer cells on the move
Some scientists have said the search for CTCs is like looking for a needle in a haystack. One millimeter of blood contains a few million white blood cells, around a billion red blood cells, and –...
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What’s Up at Upstate: In case you missed it …
Upstate’s new Clinical Pathology Laboratory is on the fifth floor of the cancer center. CANCER CENTER EXPANDS When the Upstate Cancer Center opened in July 2014, only the first three floors of the...
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Consider checking newly diagnosed diabetics for pancreatic cancer
The pancreas is shown in red. BY AMBER SMITH One of the reasons pancreatic cancer is so deadly is because early symptoms are so vague. “The majority of cases are diagnosed at an advanced, incurable...
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‘Can Man’ closes in on cancer fundraising goal
Laurence Segal and volunteers at a can and bottle collection drive near Destiny USA mall. (photo by Susan Kahn) BY JIM HOWE A local fundraising effort is close to reaching its goal of cashing in a...
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