Location: Penn State Cancer Institute

Two men in doctors' coats work in a research lab

Researchers join $10 million project to understand sex differences in brain cancer outcomes

Nov 23, 2020

Researchers from Penn State College of Medicine are participating in a $10 million project to better understand why males and females have different survival rates with a common and deadly type of brain cancer.

Conceptual illustration of the coronavirus as if it were observed from a microscope.

Penn State Health revises visitation guidelines

Nov 22, 2020

In response to an increase in patients with COVID-19 across the health system, Penn State Health has revised its patient visitation guidelines.

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Certain CBD oils no better than pure CBD at inhibiting certain cancer cell lines

Nov 17, 2020

Cannabidiol (CBD) oils are equally or less effective at inhibiting the growth of certain cancer cells compared to pure CBD, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

Glenna and J. David Brensinger lean against the side of a bridge. In the background are trees and, at a distance, a large waterfall.

Lancaster man gifts real estate to honor his late wife, support lifesaving cancer research

Oct 19, 2020

J. David Brensinger has always been the type of person to reach out and help others. Now, a planned gift in memory of his wife, Glenna, will help cancer patients for generations to come.

Dr. Melissa Tribuzio, wearing glasses and a mask, holds a stethoscope to 2-year-old Matthew Fitzpatrick’s chest as he sits on his mother’s lap. He wears a diaper and has a pacifier in his mouth. Samantha Fitzpatrick, who is wearing a sweater and a mask, places her hand behind his back. His little brother, Ben, is in the background and wears a mask.

You’ve got a friend: Penn State Health earns highest marks in patient loyalty nationwide

Oct 13, 2020

Pediatrician Dr. Melissa Tribuzio dances with the 7-year-olds and pokes fun at the teenager’s eye rolls – all to put patients at ease. Gestures like these make Penn State Health a national leader in patient loyalty.

Kristen Clements, a graduate assistant in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Penn State University, is seen in a departmental lab. She is pictured using equipment to move liquid into a test tube. Her hands are gloved.

Third annual Cancer Research Day taking place Oct. 31, 2020, as remote conference

Oct 5, 2020

All Penn State faculty, staff, trainees and students interested in cancer research careers are invited to attend the third annual Cancer Research Day online conference, taking place 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 31, 2020, via Zoom.

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Machtay named Penn State Cancer Institute associate director for clinical research

Sep 29, 2020

Dr. Mitchell Machtay has joined Penn State Cancer Institute as associate director for clinical research.

Members of the Penn State Project ECHO are sitting under a large vinyl banner that says Project ECHO. They are sitting at a reflective conference table.

College of Medicine study aims to increase HPV knowledge, vaccination rates in rural Pennsylvania

Sep 23, 2020

The National Cancer Institute has awarded William Calo, PhD, JD, MPH, assistant professor of public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, nearly $2 million over five years to improve communication about the human papillomavirus virus vaccine in rural areas and increase vaccination rates among adolescent patients in Pennsylvania.

A woman holds a hand weight and smiles while standing next to a rack of weights.

Schmitz elected to National Academy of Kinesiology; serves as editor of new book on exercise oncology

Sep 10, 2020

Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, professor of public health sciences and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Penn State College of Medicine, was recently elected to the National Academy of Kinesiology and edited her first book.

Melanie Potiaumpai, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar with The ONE Group, works with cancer patient Curt Chambers in the exercise room at Penn State Cancer Institute in 2018. Both are smiling and Chambers is pulling on a resistance band.

New website offers cancer patients a different kind of medicine – exercise

Jun 29, 2020

A group of Penn State College of Medicine faculty are bringing a different kind of medicine to cancer patients and survivors – exercise.

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