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January 08, 2025
The new treatment uses a patient’s own tumor and immune system to fight their cancer. WASHINGTON - MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is the first hospital in the Washington metropolitan are...
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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.
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June 13, 2016Three physicians from the MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute traveled to the White House today for the Obama Administration’s Organ Summit aimed at setting new strategies to increase access to organ transplants and shorten the organ waiting list.
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June 07, 2016Jeffrey Edwards of Washington, D.C. can hardly believe that his 17 year battle with diabetes is over. His debilitating three-times-a-week dialysis sessions are finished. Read how MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute is curing Diabetes with Kidney/Pancreas Transplant.
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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.
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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.
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April 27, 2016MedStar Georgetown’s Michael Atkins, MD, translated his vast knowledge of cancer immunology into a classroom-style lecture Monday for a standing-room only Congressional briefing. Atkins and five other elite leaders in oncology research, advocacy and industry aimed to educate members of Congress and their staffs about various aspects of cancer.