Location: Penn State Cancer Institute

Closeup man with mask during COVID-19 pandemic smoking a cigarette at the street.

Pandemic stress, boredom caused some PA residents to increase cigarette use

Mar 30, 2021

Stress, increased free time and feelings of boredom may have contributed to an increase in the number of cigarettes smoked per day during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A head and shoulders professional portrait of George-Lucian Moldovan

Understanding how cells repair DNA may lead to targeted cancer treatments

Mar 23, 2021

The human body is made up of trillions of cells that divide throughout a person’s lifetime. Each time a cell divides, its genetic material is copied and reproduced so the […]

Linda Billet perches on a stool in her workshop and draws with a marker on a strip of glass. She wears glasses and a face mask and has her hair in a ponytail streaked with colors. Art supplies surround her on the counter where she works.

See hope: Local artists use their craft to inspire cancer patients at Lime Spring Outpatient Center

Mar 10, 2021

Local artisan Linda Billet infuses her glass mosaics with themes she hopes will comfort patients who see them on the walls at Penn State Health Lime Spring Outpatient Center ― Hematology/Oncology.

The front of the Penn State Cancer Institute building in Hershey, PA, is seen.

Capstone project leads to upgraded cancer surveillance tool

Feb 26, 2021

Nate Geyer, a research support assistant in Penn State College of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences, has always been interested in epidemiology and geography. As a recent graduate of Penn State’s Master of Geographic Information Systems Program, he was able to put those interests together by creating a new version of LionVu, a cancer mapping tool.

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

Penn State Health changes visitation guidelines to include emergency departments, clinics

Feb 12, 2021

Penn State Health is changing its visitation guidelines to include emergency departments and clinics.

Nursing caretaker concept with kid patient sleeping in bed with family caregiver hand support in blur medical hospital background (focus on hand)

Gene mutations linked to worse outcomes from leukemia in Hispanic and Latino children

Feb 2, 2021

A combination of genetic mutations may explain the higher incidence of and poorer outcomes from pediatric leukemia in Hispanic and Latino children, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

Natasha Renee Burse, a graduate student at Penn State College of Medicine, lifts weights at the University Fitness Center.

Running the race – how breast cancer shaped student’s research career in behavioral medicine, minority health

Jan 29, 2021

Natasha Renee Burse is not a stranger to competition. She went from sprinting to the finish line of races as a Division I track and field athlete to striving to […]

A Black woman doctor wearing a protective face mask talks to a male patient at a clinic. The doctor has a stethoscope around her neck and is sitting in a chair. The male patient is wearing a face mask and a button-down shirt.

Penn State Health strengthens bias policies to support physicians, staff, learners

Jan 26, 2021

Penn State Health is implementing a systemwide patient bias prevention policy to protect employees from patients’ intolerant actions and directives based on background, race or religion.

A head and shoulders professional portrait of Monika Joshi, against a background image of Penn State Cancer Institute

Joshi appointed chief scientific officer of Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium

Jan 22, 2021

Dr. Monika Joshi, associate professor of medicine at Penn State College of Medicine and medical oncologist at Penn State Cancer Institute, has been named chief scientific officer of the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium.

Photo shows a lit cigarette

Light smokers may not escape nicotine addiction, study reveals

Dec 29, 2020

Even people who consider themselves to be casual cigarette smokers may be addicted, according to current diagnostic criteria.

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