Sentences with phrase «university cancer doctor»

The feds say Columbia University cancer doctor Robert Taub steered patients to Silver as part of an illegal quid pro quo in which Silver funneled Taub $ 500,000 in taxpayer - funded research grants.

Columbia University cancer doctor Robert Taub got $ 500,000 in taxpayer - funded research grants from Silver for steering dozens of asbestos patients to the pol's law firm, Weitz & Luxenberg.

Prosecutors on Tuesday showed the jury emails from Taub that suggested the then - Columbia University cancer doctor secretly disdained Silver and his law firm as part of a dog - eat - dog crowd that merely sought to get rich off mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

McKinley and Aniello Rega were among dozens of mesothelioma patients sent to Silver by Columbia University cancer doctor Robert Taub in exchange for $ 500,000 in taxpayer - funded research grants, prosecutors say.

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Then a Columbia University doctor who specialized in the rare form of cancer that stems from exposure to asbestos, said he understood Silver's message to mean that he wanted to be a «rainmaker» at Weitz & Luxenberg, which was getting rich suing on behalf of mesothelioma victims.

Silver was convicted late last year on multiple felony charges for engineering schemes involving a real estate company, tax firm, and even a Columbia University doctor who recommended cancer cases to Silver's law firm, and that netted the former speaker $ 4 million.

With help from researchers at Duke University, they showed that the gene has a unique pattern of methylation in breast cancer cell lines that might one day help doctors spot the disease.

Doctors at the University of Arizona Cancer Center at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix reported today in Lancet Oncology that a new treatment for ovarian cancer can improve response rates (increase the rate of tumor shrinkage) and prolong the time until cancers Cancer Center at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix reported today in Lancet Oncology that a new treatment for ovarian cancer can improve response rates (increase the rate of tumor shrinkage) and prolong the time until cancers cancer can improve response rates (increase the rate of tumor shrinkage) and prolong the time until cancers recur.

In men whose prostate cancer spreads, doctors typically prescribe drugs that block testosterone production, but cancer cells eventually become resistant to this means of reducing the hormone, says Denmeade, a professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Led by Joke Bradt, PhD, associate professor in Drexel University's College of Nursing and Health Professions, a team looked into studies that examined the impact of music therapy (a personalized music experience offered by trained music therapists) and music medicine (listening to pre-recorded music provided by a doctor or nurse) on psychological and physical outcomes in people with cancer.

A «pill on a string» developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help doctors detect esophageal cancer — cancer of the gullet — at an early stage, helping them overcome the problem of wide variation between biopsies, suggests research published today in the journal Nature Genetics.

Oregon State University scientists have developed a nanomedicine platform for cancer that can help doctors know which tissue to cut out as well as kill any malignant cells that can't be surgically removed.

Two months ago, more than 150,000 researchers, doctors, activists and cancer patients filed a federal lawsuit in New York City against Myriad Genetics, Inc., the University of Utah Research Foundation and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

or doctors at the University of California, San Diego, it was seemingly a no - lose proposition: A 73 - year - old patient's bladder cancer was slowly progressing but he was generally stable and strong.

universities and academic medical centers across the country and the world, where doctors, professors, fellows, and students unravel the complexity of cancer

At the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, our doctors are skilled in the use of several interventional endoscopy procedures for the detection and diagnosis of gastrointestinal cCancer Center, our doctors are skilled in the use of several interventional endoscopy procedures for the detection and diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancercancer.

In this 2011 photo, a doctor watches an internal video of the patient's body as he assists in prostate cancer surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Doctors may soon be able to detect and monitor a patient's cancer with a simple blood test, reducing or eliminating the need for more invasive procedures, according to Purdue University rese... Read more

Washington University researchers are developing a device that could vastly improve how doctors treat cancer and other diseases in the brain.

A research team led by an award - winning genomicist at Western University has developed a new method for identifying mutations and prioritizing variants in breast and ovarian cancer genes, which will not only reduce the number of possible variants for doctors to investigate, but also increase the number of patients that are properly diagnosed.

«Black women have been noted to present [at a doctor's office] with later stage cancer, which has a worse outcome — and they don't always get adequate care,» says Ruth ORegan, MD, associate professor of hematology and oncology and director of the translational breast cancer research program at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute in Atcancer, which has a worse outcome — and they don't always get adequate care,» says Ruth ORegan, MD, associate professor of hematology and oncology and director of the translational breast cancer research program at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute in Atcancer research program at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute in AtCancer Institute in Atlanta.

«Many people, including some doctors, think that if a person doesn't have fair skin, skin cancer won't happen to them,» says Brooke Jackson, MD, associate professor of dermatology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Under active surveillance, doctors do not treat the cancer but instead keep a watchful eye on it to make sure it doesn't become aggressive — sparing patients the harms caused by surgery or radiation therapy, said Krist, a professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University.

«Doctors tend to put little faith in hair - saving measures with questionable outcomes, but that doesn't mean there are not options out there that patients can try,» advises Mario Lacouture, MD, director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center's Dermatologic Care Center at Northwestern University in Chicago.

The topic has fascinated study author Dr. Vinay Prasad, an assistant professor of medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University, ever since he noticed that cancer doctors were tweeting about drugs and clinical trials.

Two of them — Sir Paul Nurse and Doctor Harold Varmus — direct two of the world's greatest medical research facilities, located in Manhattan: Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, respectively.