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May 18, 2026
National Safe Sun Week highlights the importance of sunscreen use to prevent the most common form of cancer in the United States. COLUMBIA, Md. — MedStar Health wants everyone to lather up ...
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July 29, 2016The first clinical trial to test a newly approved breast cancer drug specifically in African American patients is now enrolling at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and will begin soon at five other institutions in Washington, DC, Maryland, Alabama and New Jersey. -
July 19, 2016MedStar Washington Hospital Center now offers Blue Light Cystoscopy with Cysview®, a new, FDA-approved technology used to pinpoint bladder tumors in patients with known or suspected bladder cancer. -
July 18, 2016A small phase I study provides molecular evidence that an FDA-approved drug for leukemia significantly increased brain dopamine and reduced toxic proteins linked to disease progression in patients with Parkinson’s disease or dementia with Lewy bodies. -
June 17, 2016The first clinical trial to compare standard of care chemotherapy with molecularly tailored therapy (also known as precision medicine) for metastatic pancreatic cancer is now enrolling patients at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. -
May 26, 2016Back in November 2015 Koepnick of Annandale, Virginia was feeling run down and had a persistent cough. A trip the emergency room and a series of tests revealed his leukemia. -
May 17, 2016In 2013 at the age of 53, Semple, a healthy trialthlete, was diagnosed with advanced cancer of the thymus, a small gland in the neck that produces T cells for the immune system.
