Research suggests that emergency response personnel, recovery workers, law enforcement, and construction workers who reported to the World Trade Center disaster site were exposed to carcinogens that doubled their risk of developing myeloma.
A growing body of evidence is pointing to the obvious ways in which climate change impacts the environment. But those of us who study the impact of climate change on health have noted that the long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns also have not-so-obvious, downstream health implications, specifically for cancer.
The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has begun constructing the Transformational Cancer Research Building, slated to open in 2024.
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine established the Sylvester Pancreatic Cancer Research Institute. The center will support research, increase collaborations between scientists and clinicians, and provide more treatment and clinical trial opportunities for patients.
Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have partnered with the University of Miami College of Engineering for Engineering Cancer Cures, an initiative to develop and deploy innovative technologies for early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
Dorothy Graves named assistant vice president and associate director for administration at Sylvester
Dorothy Graves was named assistant vice president and associate director for administration of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center showed that a small group of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients experienced treatment-resistant mutations in a clinical trial for Loxo-305 (pirtobrutinib).
