Congratulations to Stephen Marsh, a researcher in Dr. Swarts lab, for winning the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship for the Gordon Research Conference on Radiation Chemistry for the abstract “Ex Vivo EPR nail biodosimetry: Removal of the mechanically-induced signal from nail clippings through treatment with mercaptoethanol.” More info on the award…
"I had one (oncologist) who told me that all I could do…
When radiation oncologist Doug Fein, M.D., was a resident at UF, he enjoyed meeting with world-renowned guest lecturers who visited the university. Now, he and his wife, Debbie Fein, M.D., a radiologist, are funding the Amdur/Mendenhall Radiation Oncology Lectureship so current residents can have the same chance.
Cancer that has spread from the site of an original tumor to other places in the body is often viewed as a death sentence. But if there are just a few of those secondary tumors, called metastases, some patients have a good chance of survival if treated with a type…
Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL is ranked among top 35 in US News & World Report Ranking Best Hospitals……
Small Cell Lung Cancer is an aggressive subtype of lung cancer that exhibits a unique clinical, pathological, and biological phenotype. This funding opportunity, made available through a generous philanthropic donation to the UF Shands Cancer Center, recognizes that the study of neuroendocrine small cell lung cancer is underrepresented in…
Gary Love had been retired two years when he first noticed the strange, draining feeling in his head. He went to the doctor, thinking it was a sinus infection. It wasn’t.
Nancy P. Mendenhall, M.D., medical director of the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute and associate chair of the UF department of radiation oncology, is the recipient of a James E. Lockwood Professorship.
With the snip of scissors during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 12 at the UF Cancer & Genetics Research Complex, a new era in the treatment of breast cancer in Florida began. The ceremony introduced the Intrabeam system at Shands at UF medical center, an intraoperative radiation technology available at fewer…
The University of Florida Radiation Oncology Outcomes Tracking Seminar is being held Friday, Feb 24, and Saturday, Feb 25, 2012. The keynote speaker will be W. Robert Lee from Duke University Medical Center. A concurrent radiation therapists meeting will also be held. For more information, email Jessica Kirwan.
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