News Archive

June 28, 2020

The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) was recently awarded its first-ever National Institutes of Health T-32 research training grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in support of the GW Cancer Biology Training Program.

June 10, 2020

Listen as Dr. Mikhail Kogan discusses the benefits of prescribing medical cannabis.

May 10, 2020

Dr. Yuan James Rao discusses brachytherapy and what to expect from this type of cancer treatment.

May 10, 2020

Dr. Sharad Goyal, Chief of the GW Radiation Oncology division at the GW Cancer Center, discusses advances in radiosurgery.

May 5, 2020

Enrollment in a supportive oncodermatology program is associated with a significantly improved quality of life score, according to a recent survey from the George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center. The results of the survey were published in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology.

April 27, 2020

GW dermatology experts are available to speak for media stories during Skin Cancer Awareness Month.

April 10, 2020

Dr. Rachel Brem discusses recent innovations and improvements in diagnosing and treating breast cancer.

April 10, 2020

Dr. Keith Mortman brings awareness to a lesser known and talked about disease, esophageal cancer.

March 29, 2020

When planning their wedding, Yuan James Rao, MD, director of brachytherapy at the George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center and assistant professor of radiology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), and Destie Provenzano, a PhD candidate in the GW Department of…

March 27, 2020

Findings published in Nanomaterials by a team at GW suggest that a combination of photothermal and epigenetic therapies may help to maximize the therapeutic benefits of melanoma, and possibly other tumors.