Ronny Bell named associate director for cancer care access and excellence at UNC Lineberger

Robert L. Ferris named executive director of UNC Lineberger—with an additional job as chief of oncology services

Robert L. Ferris, a head-and-neck surgeon and an expert in cancer immunotherapy was named the executive director of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the chief of oncology services at UNC Health.

Studies detail molecular pathway that impacts pancreatic cancer progression and response to treatment

Researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and colleagues have established the most comprehensive molecular portrait of the workings of KRAS and how its activities impact pancreatic cancer outcomes.

June 07, 2024

Vol.50 No.23

In Brief

Ethan Basch receives $3M grant to launch national patient-reported outcomes project

Ethan Basch, a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher, received $3 million in research funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, to support a multi-institutional initiative to implement electronic patient-reported outcomes, or ePRO, in oncology practices across the country.

December 01, 2023

Vol.49 No.44

Clinical Roundup

UC, UNC, Duke to collaborate on large prospective study investigating effect of cancer on stroke risk

A collaborative team led by University of Cincinnati, University of North Carolina, and Duke University researchers intends to study the prevalence of stroke in patients with different cancer types.

October 20, 2023

Vol.49 No.39

Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Shelley Earp steps down at UNC Lineberger, ending a 22-year directorship
A search for his replacement begins

Shelton “Shelley” Earp said he will step down as director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center effective June 2024.

Wendy R. Brewster, gyn-onc professor and health disparities expert at UNC-Chapel Hill, dies at 57

Wendy R. Brewster, MD, PhD, a compassionate clinician-scientist who focused her career on caring for women with gynecologic cancer and studying at-risk populations and the disparate mechanisms leading to poor outcomes in endometrial, ovarian, and cervical cancers, died of pancreatic cancer on July 24. She passed surrounded and supported by her family in Houston, where her sister lived.

August 04, 2023

Vol.49 No.31

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Shelley Earp steps down at UNC Lineberger, ending a 22-year directorship
A search for his replacement begins