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Gynecologic cancers are often referred to as silent diseases because many of the early symptoms are familiar to females and can be easily missed. According to the American Cancer Society, more females will be diagnosed with gynecologic cancer in 2023 than colon cancer. Among the five most common gynecologic cancers, almost 115,000 females will receive a new diagnosis this year. So, what are your chances of developing gynecologic cancer? These cancers only occur in the female reproductive system, so all ...

Hannah Burnor was vacationing with her family when she discovered a lump in her right breast. “I wasn’t worried about it,” Hannah said. “I thought it might be a clogged milk duct.” The 27-year-old mother of two girls had been struggling to breastfeed her newborn daughter because she could not pump milk from her right breast. It had also become swollen and uncomfortable.  Concerned about the newly discovered lump, Hannah’s doctor ordered an ultrasound.  She ended up having two of the imaging te...

CBS News Detroit Felicity Harper, Ph.D. , clinical psychologist, member of the Supportive Oncology Multidisciplinary Team , associate center director of Population Studies, member of the Population Studies and Disparities Research Program at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute , and associate professor of Oncology at Wayne State University School of Medicine, joined CBS News Detroit to talk about new research done at Karmanos and McLaren that has shown music can improve mood and reduce stress whil...

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University (WSU) School of Medicine researchers were part of an international study that looked into the survival rate of patients who quit smoking prior to being diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). “Association between duration of smoking abstinence before non-small-cell lung cancer diagnosis and survival: A retrospective, pooled analysis of cohort studies” was published in Lancet Public Health in September 2023. In the study, sur...

Researchers have discovered they can image inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. Their findings, titled “Detection of IL12/23p40 via PET visualizes inflammatory bowels disease,” were published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine in July 2023. IBD includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Both conditions increase a patient’s risk of developing colorectal cancer. The current standard of detecting IBD is endoscopy, however, molecular changes occur that are...

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute , along with cancer centers and other organizations across the nation, recognizes and promotes awareness of three cancer types during September. These cancer types are: Blood Cancer Gynecologic Cancer Prostate Cancer Blood Cancer Awareness Month Blood cancers include leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. They occur in blood forming cells, bone marrow and the lymphatic system, a part of the immune system. According to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, someone is diagn...

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute invites the community to the Screening Saves Lives: Cancer Screening and Educational Event . On Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., Karmanos will provide colon screening consultations, head and neck examinations, lung cancer screenings, mammograms, skin cancer screenings, and wellness checks at their main location at 4100 John R. Street in Detroit. “Last year, we were able to see over 160 people who received screenings, consultations and were able to s...

Research at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute into how obesity affects endometrial cancer is underway with new funding. The DMC Foundation has awarded Michael Wilson, Ph.D., a $75,000 grant for the study “Obesity impacts the endometrial cancer tumor microenvironment.” His team’s research focuses on immune cell populations associated with endometrial tumors and how obesity impacts both the abundance and the characteristics of these cell types. “Obesity is a risk factor for many types of cancer, b...

If you’re looking for someone who can quickly help you with your healthcare needs, a nurse practitioner could be the perfect fit.  A nurse practitioner is a nurse with advanced education and training. Nurse practitioners start by becoming registered nurses, then earn  graduate degrees and pass national board certification exams to be licensed by the state. “A nurse practitioner has to complete at least a master's level degree with an average of 600 clinical training hours,” said Heather Werlin...

A doctoral student in cancer biology at the Wayne State University (WSU) School of Medicine has secured funding from the National Institutes of Health to support her research.  Alexis Wilson’s project, “ATF4-SCD axis in bone metastatic prostate cancer,” is investigating how the interaction between tumor cells and fat cells within bone marrow activates adaptive mechanisms to promote the growth and progression of metastatic prostate cancer in bone. Wilson was awarded the F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Natio...