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When you think of cancer care, do feeding tubes come to mind? They most likely do not, but they are essential for many patients who are undergoing treatment for head and neck cancers, which includes the mouth, throat, and voice box. Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer patients often need them as well, since their cancers are in […]

When you think about cancer treatment side effects, a few things probably come to mind; nausea, vomiting, hair loss, weakened immune system, but what about lymphedema? Lymphedema is swelling due to build-up of lymph fluid in the body and interrupts the lymphatic flow. When not treated properly, it can cause loss of use of swelled […]

Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death, in the United States. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 60% of adult smokers said that they wanted to quit smoking and had made attempts to quit.   The Georgia Cancer Center’s Tobacco Cessation Program uses an evidence based two prong approach […]

The grant awarded for Chadli’s research focuses on a specific protein, UNC45A, that can be used as a promising novel immunotherapeutic target in treating triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).