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Results from a partnership to address disparities and enhance the quality of breast cancer care at Memphis-based West Cancer Center & Research Institute were announced today. The program is sponsored by Amgen. “Our goal is to reduce breast cancer-related mortality disparity rates of Black women in the Memphis area, where the current disparity rate is approximately 70 percent –… Read more »
West Cancer Center, Memphis, Tennessee; City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California; Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, San Antonio, Texas; O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, and University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; comprise the new Advancing Inclusive Research® Site Alliance. This coalition of clinical research sites aims to advance the representation… Read more »
Meet Ken, a West Cancer Center metastatic melanoma survivor. Ken recently shared his Cancer Survivorship Story with us as we hope to spread these journeys of hope, achievement and encouragement this month! Here is Ken’s story: “My personal journey with #melanoma began long before my first #skincancer diagnosis. I grew up near… Read more »
West Cancer Center is the region’s comprehensive leader in adult cancer care and research, delivering a complete continuum of care to more than 37,000 individuals each year. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. The NCQA seal is a reliable indicator that an organization... Read more »
West Cancer Center and Saint Francis Healthcare Announce Joint Relationship New affiliation includes first-in-the-Mid-South cancer urgent care center West Cancer Center and Research Institute and Saint Francis Healthcare today announced an agreement to advance and increase access to cancer care in the Mid-South. This collaboration is supported by multi-million dollar investments in cancer… Read more »
West Cancer Center has expanded our services and patient access over the last several months through new community partnerships. These partnerships allow us to continue raising the bar for oncology treatment here in the MidSouth through the following initiatives: On June 15, 2021, West and St. Francis officially announced a venture that expands comprehensive oncology... Read more »
West Fight On returns to Shelby Farms Park on September 11, 2021 Get ready to cycle, run, or walk to beat cancer! West Fight On benefiting West Cancer Foundation will be LIVE and IN-PERSON this September! This signature fundraising event will return to its home at Shelby Farms Park on Saturday, September 11,… Read more »
Dr. Daniel Vaena, Director of Experimental Therapeutics Program at West Cancer Center Research Institute, co-presented updated data from Compugen Ltd.’s Phase 1 dose escalation and expansion study of COM701 as a monotherapy, and in a dose escalation combination study with Opdivo® (nivolumab) Vaena states “Although these results are very preliminary, they suggest that targeting… Read more »
Here at West Cancer Center & Research Institute, we are proud to host our own virtual tumor boards, or Multidisciplinary Conferences, multiple times each week. In these multidisciplinary conferences, we bring together a variety of providers from different disciplines and even institutions to talk about patient cases. It is in these conferences that a group… Read more »
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