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A Closer Look
In a two-room office space, tucked away on the second floor of the Vanderbilt Clinic, Carol Kelso, R.N., administers a therapy that doesn’t come with a prescription. “The most important thing I do is...
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Leukemia’s Chromosomal Break-ups
Scott Hiebert, Ph.D., has been on a 20-year hunt for the causes of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). When he entered the field in 1992, scientists had identified multiple chromosomal translocations – where...
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Forecast Positive
The best meteorologists can seem akin to conjurers – mixing scientific information about pressure gradients and wind patterns with a dollop of gut instinct to create weather forecasts that often...
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Understanding Stem Cell Transplant
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center performs around 215 stem cell and bone marrow transplants each year, providing care leading up to the transplant, through all aspects of the procedure, and...
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Opening Pandora’s Box
It’s been two years since Joan Meredith’s stem cell transplant for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Although she is now “100 percent donor” and her new immune system appears to be functioning well, she...
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Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) – the main complication of allogeneic stem cell transplants – is the exact opposite of solid organ rejection: instead of your body rejecting the new organ, the new...
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Recent Publications by VICC Researchers
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is committed to conducting innovative, high-impact, basic, translational and clinical research with the greatest potential for making a difference for cancer patients,...
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News From Around the Cancer Center
Vanderbilt Mourns Loss of Frances Williams Preston Frances Williams Preston, one of the most successful female music executives in the history of the entertainment industry, and a member of the...
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Laughter in Spite of Leukemia
Dori Brown loved to laugh. Her smile and her hearty, infectious laugh endeared her to everyone she met, says her husband Jim Brown. “I married her because of her smile and her laugh.” She laughed,...
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Battling Blood Cancers
One person in the United States dies every 10 minutes from a blood cancer – leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. This year more than 140,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed and more than 53,000...
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