During the holiday season, lots of folks go out of their way to bring a little cheer to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital patients. This season, one family brought cheer and also some hope for a cure. Today, Doernbecher received $1,000 check to help cure cancer. The oversized check was presented by the brother and cousins of Riley Erin Arriola, a 9-year-old girl who lost her battle with cancer in 2010. The children, CJ, Megan and Paige, … Read More
Are robots replacing surgeons? Not any time soon, but that was one of the most frequently asked questions when Oregon Health & Science University physicians gave demonstrations this weekend of how surgical robots work and how they are transforming a wide variety of procedures. The demonstrations were part of Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS & The Brain exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). Museum visitors had the opportunity to see how … Read More
Scientists and physicians at the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute recently found new clues that could help them figure out why drugs that target mutations in breast tumors won’t be effective in stamping out cancer in some patients. The study, published a study in the Annals of Surgical Oncology, sheds light on mutations found in stem cells that could be causing some breast cancers to develop and may be the reason the … Read More
Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researchers uncovered a gene that may be the key to helping kidney cancer patients who don’t respond to current therapies. This discovery could also provide a toolkit to identify patients who are most likely to benefit from drugs that block this gene from causing cancer cells to grow. The OHSU study, which was recently published in Science Translational Medicine, identified a gene called Src that helps certain kidney … Read More
There was an interesting story in the “O” this morning about a healthy trend that is sweeping a across the state: no smoking campuses. Tuesday’s story explained that by 2012, most colleges and universities in Oregon will be smoke-free. As for OHSU, the university decided to snuff-out smoking on campus in 2007. Why did we do it? A few key reasons from our Web site Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death and illness Tobacco contributed to 6,921 deaths … Read More
Thanks to health research, we have come a long way in the battle against many forms of cancer including ovarian cancer. While there is much more work to be done in beating the disease, researchers are now looking at the long term impacts of cancer therapies and improving the quality of life for those who survive. A news story that is starting to air across the country focuses on one such effort at OHSU. Here … Read More
Joe Gray, Ph.D., a lead scientist with the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute, was involved in two studies published this week that make strides in understanding cancer. One of the studies, published in the June 30 edition of Nature, is the first comprehensive catalog of the genetic aberrations responsible for an aggressive type of ovarian cancer that accounts for 70 percent of all ovarian cancer deaths. The catalog is the most expansive … Read More
