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COVID-19 and Cancer: D-H Doctors Discuss Vaccine Safety for Cancer Patients on “The Cure Podcast”
Special guest, DHMC Interim Section Chief of Medical Oncology Gary N. Schwartz, MD.

Where Do Prouty Donations Go? Winter 2021
Combining high-dose radiation therapy with immunotherapy to treat cancer, and resolving employment challenges among cancer survivors are among the newest research projects funded by The Prouty.

Seeing the Invisible: NCCC Pioneers Radiation Vision Cameras
Cherenkov imaging cameras invented by Dartmouth spinoff company and pioneered at NCCC allow radiation oncologists to visualize external beam field, improving quality, precision and patient safety during radiation therapy.

Gifts Totaling $3.35 Million will Fuel Cancer Research in New Hampshire
A Dartmouth faculty member, a husband grateful for the care his wife received, and a Dartmouth College alumna and her husband have made gifts to accelerate immunotherapy research at Dartmouth’s and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

Piloting a FLASH Radiotherapy Beam for Treatment of Cancer
Researchers convert a standard linear accelerator used for radiation therapy, to deliver an ultra-high-dose rate beam to cancer patients “in a flash.”

Cancer Doesn’t Stop for COVID-19: Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center Joins Nationwide Effort to Resume Cancer Screening
By Newsroom
“Cancer did not pause for COVID-19 and neither did we,” says NCCC director Steven D. Leach, MD