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August 3, 2023 UVA Cancer Center Seeks Innovative Ideas to Improve Care, Reduce Health Disparities 

To reduce cancer’s impact and enhance health equity, University of Virginia Cancer Center will award as many as five grants of up to $10,000 to support innovative, community-based projects that have the potential to improve cancer care and prevention.

July 5, 2023 UVA Cancer Center’s Cutting-Edge Immunotherapy Soon Available With No Hospital Stay 

A cutting-edge type of cancer immunotherapy – which supercharges immune cells to better destroy cancer cells – will no longer require a hospital stay for select adult outpatients at UVA Cancer Center beginning later this month.

May 17, 2023 Children’s Cancer Research Fund Backs UVA Leukemia Research

Children’s Cancer Research Fund has awarded $250,000 to an innovative new approach to treating leukemia – blood cancer – being developed at UVA Cancer Center.

April 12, 2023 UVA Health Earns WebMD Patient Choice, Medscape Physician Choice Awards

UVA Health has been named a “best in class” health system in Virginia for its cancer, heart, orthopedics, neurology and digestive health care.

March 21, 2023 Troubling Disparities Found in Esophageal Cancer Outcomes

Lower-income people are much less likely to receive a potentially lifesaving treatment for the fastest-increasing type of esophageal cancer – and more likely to die.

March 20, 2023 UVA Cancer Center Backs 5 Efforts to Address Cancer-Related Health Disparities

Five community groups from across Virginia have received $10,000 grants from UVA Cancer Center to address cancer-related health disparities. The grant program was created to celebrate UVA’s designation by the National Cancer Institute as Virginia’s only Comprehensive Cancer Center.

January 10, 2023 UVA, Community Health Centers Expand Cancer Screenings for Underserved

To expand access to cancer screenings for underserved groups in Central, Southside and Southwest Virginia, UVA Cancer Center is establishing partnerships with community health centers serving those regions.

November 9, 2022 UVA Blood Cancer Research Points 
to New Treatment for Bone Marrow Cancer

Pioneering research into the chronic inflammation often seen in certain blood cancers has identified a promising treatment approach for myelofibrosis, a potentially deadly bone marrow cancer.

November 1, 2022 UVA, Other Top Cancer Groups Seek to Boost Lung Cancer Screening 

UVA Health Cancer Center is joining more than 50 other top cancer organizations in calling to increase access to and use of low-dose computed tomography (CT) scans for Americans at high risk for lung cancer.

October 27, 2022 UVA Creates Shining ‘KSTAR’  to Guide Cancer Treatments

UVA researchers have developed an algorithm that will improve cancer care by quickly and easily identifying patients who will benefit from powerful cancer drugs called kinase inhibitors.