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Newswise: Sylvester Cancer Tip Sheet for April 2025
Released: 16-Apr-2025 7:55 PM EDT
Sylvester Cancer Tip Sheet for April 2025
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Tackling high-grade neuroendocrine tumors, unlocking the mysteries of kidney cancer metabolism, making comprehensive cancer services more accessible, emerging trends after an FDA committee ruling favors using a new endpoint in multiple myeloma trials, and more are in this month’s tip sheet from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Newswise: Clinical Trial Opens for Patients with High-Grade Neuroendocrine Cancer
Released: 9-Apr-2025 8:50 PM EDT
Clinical Trial Opens for Patients with High-Grade Neuroendocrine Cancer
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

A clinical trial for patients with high-grade neuroendocrine tumors is now open for enrollment at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. The new trial will test the novel combination of immunotherapy paired with a tumor-busting virus.

Newswise: My Cancer Treatment Checklist of Questions
Released: 28-Mar-2025 8:00 PM EDT
My Cancer Treatment Checklist of Questions
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

As a cancer patient, it can be challenging to ask questions of your health care providers. Even though I am a trained journalist who practically asks questions for a living, I struggled with all the questions I had during the early parts of my cancer journey.

Newswise: Sylvester Cancer Tip Sheet - March 2025
Released: 21-Mar-2025 7:35 PM EDT
Sylvester Cancer Tip Sheet - March 2025
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Rising leukemia rates in Florida linked to aging population, new treatment guidelines for follicular lymphoma, a new study that may help unlock immunotherapy for glioblastoma, and more are in this month’s tip sheet from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Newswise: New Guidelines Expanded Access to Lung Cancer Screening, But Gaps Remain in Reaching Rural and Uninsured Populations
Released: 20-Mar-2025 11:00 AM EDT
New Guidelines Expanded Access to Lung Cancer Screening, But Gaps Remain in Reaching Rural and Uninsured Populations
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Since 2021, when lung cancer screening guidelines began to include younger people and those with a lower smoking history, the number of screenings climbed, but significant gaps remain, especially among people with limited access to healthcare.

Newswise: Study: Suppressing Key Protein May Unlock Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma
Released: 17-Mar-2025 12:05 PM EDT
Study: Suppressing Key Protein May Unlock Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Glioblastoma is one of the toughest cancers to treat, but a new study suggests that suppressing a protein (ZNF638) triggers an antiviral immune response, making immune checkpoint inhibitors more effective. The discovery also identifies ZNF638 as a biomarker that could help personalize immunotherapy.

Newswise: Study: Florida Leukemia Rates Rising Rapidly as Population Ages
Released: 10-Mar-2025 6:05 AM EDT
Study: Florida Leukemia Rates Rising Rapidly as Population Ages
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

A new Sylvester Cancer study reveals Florida has the nation’s highest and fastest-growing leukemia rates, driven primarily by an influx of retirees, but it also uncovers a critical mismatch: many of the state’s leukemia “hotspots,” lack nearby specialized treatment, putting these residents at higher risk.

Newswise: Heavy Metals in EV Batteries Are Known Carcinogens, Pose Greater Cancer Risk for Firefighters, Owners and Communities
Released: 27-Feb-2025 8:05 PM EST
Heavy Metals in EV Batteries Are Known Carcinogens, Pose Greater Cancer Risk for Firefighters, Owners and Communities
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Electric vehicles are becoming more popular and are a growing segment of the nation’s automobile fleet. But public health researchers with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center are discovering elevated cancer risks for firefighters and community members alike from electric vehicle fires.

Newswise: The International Headache Society (IHS) Raises the Standards for Migraine Prevention: A New Statement for More Ambitious Treatments
Released: 24-Feb-2025 7:15 PM EST
The International Headache Society (IHS) Raises the Standards for Migraine Prevention: A New Statement for More Ambitious Treatments
University of Miami Health System, Miller School of Medicine

Migraine is much more than just a headache. It is a debilitating disease that can drastically impact the lives of those affected, limiting their ability to work, study, travel, spend time with family, and enjoy everyday moments.

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Newswise: Sylvester Cancer Tip Sheet for February, 2025
Released: 20-Feb-2025 8:25 PM EST
Sylvester Cancer Tip Sheet for February, 2025
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Protecting firefighters from occupational cancer risks, electric vehicle fires associated with higher cancer risks, connecting patients directly with pathologists to explain complex test results, using gene editing to battle mitochondrial diseases, and a profile of a brain cancer researcher are all in this month’s tip sheet.

Newswise: The Partner Perspective
Released: 17-Feb-2025 8:20 PM EST
The Partner Perspective
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Anyone on a cancer journey needs support from other people. On my journey, I was incredibly fortunate, says Rochelle Broder-Singer, a journalist and cancer survivor. Family, friends, fellow breast cancer survivors and others were there for her. Most important was her husband, Scott, who shares his experience in this article.

Released: 6-Feb-2025 9:30 AM EST
Sylvester Sexual Health Program Helps Women Cancer Survivors
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Sexual intimacy can be challenging for women treated for cancer, but the nationally recognized Menopause Urogenital Sexual Health and Intimacy Clinic (MUSIC) at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center can help.

Newswise: Sylvester Celebrates 10 Years of Extinguishing Firefighter Cancer Risks
Released: 4-Feb-2025 9:10 PM EST
Sylvester Celebrates 10 Years of Extinguishing Firefighter Cancer Risks
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Firefighters are more likely to die of cancer than accidents or flames, but for 10 years, the nationally recognized Firefighter Cancer Initiative (FCI) at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of UHealth, the University of Miami Health System, has been working to cut that risk.

Released: 3-Feb-2025 9:10 PM EST
Guilt, Gratitude and Meaning in a New Year
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Breast cancer survivor Rochelle Broder-Singer is a journalist with over two decades of experience in journalism and communications. In addition to her professional achievements, Rochelle is currently writing a series of articles for Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center chronicling her cancer journey.

Newswise: The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Selected as a U.S. Site for Neuralink Clinical Trial
Released: 27-Jan-2025 6:45 PM EST
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Selected as a U.S. Site for Neuralink Clinical Trial
University of Miami Health System, Miller School of Medicine

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami (UM) Miller School of Medicine have been selected to become the second U.S.-based site for Neuralink’s PRIME Study, an investigational medical device clinical trial for Neuralink’s ground-breaking brain-computer interface.

Newswise: FDA Ban on Red Dye 3 and More Are Highlighted in Sylvester Cancer's January Tip Sheet
Released: 15-Jan-2025 8:45 PM EST
FDA Ban on Red Dye 3 and More Are Highlighted in Sylvester Cancer's January Tip Sheet
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

The FDA ban on Red Dye 3, cancer survivorship and what it means to live with cancer, global trends in lung cancer deaths, gynecologic disparities in women of African ancestry and more are included in this month's tip sheet from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Newswise: Having a Mocktail Instead of a Cocktail Could Reduce Your Risk for Developing 7 Known Types of Cancer
Released: 14-Jan-2025 8:45 PM EST
Having a Mocktail Instead of a Cocktail Could Reduce Your Risk for Developing 7 Known Types of Cancer
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Have a "mocktail" instead of a cocktail. It could reduce your risk for developing seven known types of cancer. In this article, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center experts offer mocktail recipes and other tips on avoiding alcohol without feeling deprived.

Newswise: Study by Sylvester, Collaborators Highlights Global Trends in Risk Factors Linked to Lung Cancer Deaths
Released: 9-Jan-2025 7:15 PM EST
Study by Sylvester, Collaborators Highlights Global Trends in Risk Factors Linked to Lung Cancer Deaths
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Lung and related cancer deaths decreased in the world’s 10 most populous countries over the past 40 years, but there is still a pressing need for public health measures to further reduce tobacco use and related mortality and the cancer risk from air pollution and asbestos exposure.



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