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The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University will host the Second Annual Lung Cancer Symposium on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. The event includes presentations from leading experts in the field of thoracic oncology, including Nasser Hanna, M.D., from Indiana University; Saiama Waqar, M.D., MSCI, from Washington University; Jay Lee, M.D., from University of California Los Angeles; Jyoti Malhotra, M.D., MPH, from City of Hope; and Antoinette Wozniak, M.D., FACP, FASCO, from the Lung Ca...

WJR A new study reports that women are more likely to return for future breast screening after a true-positive result rather than a false-positive result. Evita Singh, M.D. , diagnostic radiologist, director of Breast Imaging, and member of the Breast Cancer Multidisciplinary Team at Karmanos, joined All Talk With Kevin Dietz to explain what this study means, what possible results women may receive after having a mammogram, and why it is important to come back for any necessary follow-up screenings and ...

WJR A new study reports that women are more likely to return for future breast screening after a true-positive result rather than a false-positive result. Evita Singh, M.D. , diagnostic radiologist, director of Breast Imaging and member of the Breast Cancer Multidisciplinary Team at Karmanos, joined the ‘JR Morning with Guy, Lloyd and Jamie, to explain what this study means, why some women may not return, and why she makes sure to have that face-to-face conversation with patients so they understand thei...

President and CEO of McLaren Health Care, Philip A. Incarnati, President and CEO of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Boris C. Pasche, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, and President of the Karmanos Cancer Hospital and Karmanos Cancer Network, Brian R. Gamble, have been included in this year’s “Detroit 500.” An annual feature from DBusiness Magazine, the “Detroit 500” compiles the 500 most influential business leaders in metro Detroit. Individuals are selected based on several factors, including the company o...

WJR The FDA has approved a new blood test to screen for colorectal cancer, called Shield. This screening is available to adults 45 and older who are at an average risk of developing colon cancer. Wasif Saif, M.D., MBBS , medical oncologist, co-leader of the Gastrointestinal and Neuroendocrine Oncology Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and leader of the Phase I Clinical Trials MDT , joined ‘JR Morning to answer some questions about what this new test means for the future of colorectal cancer screening. Schedu...

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute’s fourth annual Prostate Cancer Awareness Night with the Detroit Tigers and McLaren Health Care, the official health care system of the Tigers, was a home run on Monday, July 8. Hundreds of prostate cancer survivors and their loved ones were brought together under the lights of Comerica Park as the Detroit Tigers beat their division rival, the Cleveland Guardians. This awareness game also provided crucial information on early detection, highlighted the importanc...

The National Cancer Institute has awarded Jugmohit Toor, a third-year Wayne State University School of Medicine student, the   Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual M.D.-Ph.D. fellows. Jugmohit is an M.D.-Ph.D. student in the Cancer Biology Graduate Program. This NCI grant will support his research. His dissertation project is entitled “Investigating the MAIT cell- Microbiome Relationship in Pancreatic Cancer Liver Metastasis.” “I have always taken an interest in how T ...

Since the first immunotherapy drug to boost the body’s immune response against advanced lung cancer was introduced in the U.S. in 2015, survival rates of patients with the disease have improved significantly. That’s the conclusion of a recent real-world study published by Wiley online in CANCER , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. A team led by Dipesh Uprety, M.D., FACP , of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and the Wayne State University School of Medicine, published “Survi...

Michigan Chronicle In today’s world, patients can access their health care information through a portal that is updated by their health team, but are these innovative tools available to everyone? In this article, Latonya Riddle-Jones, M.D., MPH, associate center director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Karmanos and assistant professor at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, said we’re leaving a large population behind. She described why this is happening and explained why DEI init...

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) has announced that Charles A. Schiffer, M.D., will be presented with one of two ASH Mentor Awards. Dr. Schiffer will receive his award during the 66 th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition in December in San Diego, California. Dr. Schiffer retired as a hematologist and medical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in 2020. He was the leader of the Hematology Oncology Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and is still very active with the team, often partici...