A new treatment regimen can help some patients who have blood cancer to live disease-free longer, University of Florida researchers and colleagues have found. Low doses of a drug called lenalidomide can help hold off the return of multiple myeloma after bone marrow transplantation. Patients who took the drug to maintain health also lived longer [...]

Cancer that has spread from the site of an original tumor to other places in the body is often viewed as a death sentence. But if there are just a few of those secondary tumors, called metastases, some patients have a good chance of survival if treated with a type of radiation that precisely targets [...]

A $10 million gift from the Lillian S. Wells Foundation Inc. to the University of Florida department of neurosurgery will help medical scientists better understand the causes of brain tumors and lead to effective treatments and improved quality of life for patients, UF officials announced today. The Fort Lauderdale-based foundation’s gift will establish the Lillian [...]

The Park Avenue Imaging Center, a diagnostic facility of the UF&Shands Breast Center, has received national accreditation from the American College of Radiology for stereotactic breast biopsies. This recognition, along with its existing accreditation for mammography and breast ultrasound, makes it the first ACR Breast Imaging Center of Excellence in north central Florida. Stereotactic breast [...]

A group of life-threatening blood disorders collectively called myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, may occur four times more often than reported by national cancer registries, according to new research from the University of Florida based on data from Medicare claims. MDS occurs when the body’s blood factory does not produce healthy red or white blood cells [...]

STOP! Children’s Cancer Inc. will donate more than $1 million to the University of Florida College of Medicine to establish the STOP! Children’s Cancer Bonnie R. Freeman Clinical Trials Fund. The $1.05 million gift will be presented Sunday at the 15th annual STOP! Children’s Cancer “Holiday Traditions: A Musical Celebration” event at the Curtis M. [...]

Nancy P. Mendenhall, M.D., medical director of the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute and associate chair of the UF department of radiation oncology, is the recipient of a James E. Lockwood Professorship. The newly created professorship is made possible by a $1 million endowment from the Lockwood Charitable Foundation and is the first of [...]

In Florida, one in four men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer — more than the national average — and black men are nearly three times more likely than white men to die from the disease, according to experts from the University of Florida department of urology and Prostate Disease Center. But new legislation that [...]

University of Florida researchers have modified a toxic chemical produced by tiny marine microbes and successfully deployed it against laboratory models of colon cancer. Writing today in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, UF medicinal chemists describe how they took a generally lethal byproduct of marine cyanobacteria and made it more specifically toxic — to cancer cells. [...]

Mark T. Scarborough, M.D., has been named chairman of the department of orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the University of Florida College of Medicine. Scarborough, an orthopaedic oncologist, has been on the UF faculty for 20 years. He is also being named as the first holder of the William F. Enneking, William E. Anspach, and Orthopaedic [...]