VCU Massey Cancer Center | Strategic Alliance Partners

March 07, 2024

Survivors of childhood cancer are at a significantly higher risk of death following a major cardiovascular event than the general public.

February 27, 2024

Three Virginia health systems together will serve as one of eight groups in the U.S. to conduct research for the Cancer Screening Research Network.

June 08, 2023

VCU Massey Cancer Center has been designated a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute, the nation’s principal authority on cancer research and training.

July 20, 2021

Homogeneous trials present a missed opportunity to discover treatments that might be highly successful in a particular subset of patients.

November 17, 2020

Leslie M. Randall, MD, MAS, ​discusses the unmet need​s in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

September 19, 2019

Charles E. Geyer, Jr, MD, professor of medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine; associate director for clinical research and Harrigan, Haw, Luck Families chair in Cancer Research, Massey Cancer Center, discusses ongoing challenges in the management of patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.

January 29, 2019

Charles E. Geyer, Jrm, MD, discusses the clinical implications of the KATHERINE trial and the outlook for T-DM1 in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

January 22, 2019

Charles E. Geyer, Jr, MD, professor of medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine; associate director for clinical research and Harrigan, Haw, Luck Families chair in Cancer Research, Massey Cancer Center, discusses the impact of targeted agents in HER2-positive breast cancer.

December 29, 2018

Charles E. Geyer, Jr, MD, professor of medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine; associate director for clinical research and Harrigan, Haw, Luck Families chair in Cancer Research, Massey Cancer Center, discusses pertuzumab in HER2-positive breast cancer.

December 11, 2018

Charles E. Geyer, Jr, MD, professor of medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine; associate director for clinical research and Harrigan, Haw, Luck Families chair in Cancer Research, Massey Cancer Center, discusses the rationale and results of the phase III KATHERINE trial in HER2-positive breast cancer.

July 03, 2017

Studies conducted at VCU Massey Cancer Center in Richmond, Virginia, over the past 7 years have developed the therapeutic combination of pemetrexed and sorafenib (Nexavar) from the bench to the bedside, and now into phase II clinical trial evaluation.

April 17, 2017

Investigators at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center discuss the current treatment for children with high-risk neuroblastoma including high-dose chemotherapy, surgery, stem cell transplantation, radiation therapy, isotretinoin, and immunotherapy.

August 31, 2016

Investigators at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center are developing dynamical models that may allow clinicians to move beyond simple human leukocyte antigen matching to personalize immunosuppressive regimens and thus improve donor selection.

March 14, 2016

The Department of Radiation Oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center has long been at the forefront worldwide in the development of various radiation therapy technologies that are now considered standard and have become widely available.

February 25, 2016

Victor Y. Yazbeck, MD, discusses the potential for venetoclax and idelalisib, both as single agents and in combination with other agents, and what questions remain regarding both therapies in CLL.

January 30, 2016

The identification of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumor suppressor genes and the recognition that inherited loss of function (deleterious) mutations in one of these important genes places women at high risk for the development of breast, ovarian, and other cancers are major advances in women’s health research.

June 17, 2015

OncLive® announced an addition to its vibrant Strategic Alliance Partnership program today as VCU Massey Cancer Center signed onto the program's mission to raise awareness of cancer treatment and research.