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NCI Renews Comprehensive Cancer Center Designation for NCCC
The cancer center is one of only 51 centers in the United States—and the only one located outside a major urban area—to have this prestigious designation.
The Many Colors of Oncology Nursing
Assisting with surgeries to guiding patients through clinical research trials, Oncology nurses at NCCC all have one priority in common: exceptional care that comes out of the passion and love for their jobs.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health Resumes Time-Sensitive, Urgent Procedures and Appointments
Health system laying important groundwork to begin process of recovery for benefit of patients
Base Camp COVID: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health CEO and President Tours COVID-19 Unit
Joanne Conroy, MD, Visits the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
New AI Model Accurately Classifies Colorectal Polyps Using Slides from 24 Institutions
Dartmouth researchers have created an AI model to classify colorectal polyps on histology slides. Evaluation using 238 slides from 24 institutions across 13 US states finds that the model performs as well as practicing pathologists.
Discovering a Key to the Survival of Dormant Breast Cancer Cells
A common anti-diabetes drug being tested in many clinical trials as an anti-cancer agent activated fat metabolism that promoted the survival of dormant breast cancer cells, suggesting that the drug has context-dependent effects on cancer cells.
COVID-19 Video Message from Steven Leach, MD, Director, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Steven Leach, MD, Director of Dartmouth’s and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) shares the special precautions the clinicians and staff at NCCC have taken to help ensure the safety of patients during the COVID-19 crisis.
10 Things You May Not Know About Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma is one of several types of blood cancer. Here are 10 things you may not know about this relatively rare cancer.
Where Do Prouty Donations Go? Spring, 2020
Programming machine learning for cervical cancer screening, aiding survival of cancer-fighting immune cells, and measuring clinician emotion during difficult conversations. These are just some of the new cancer research studies funded by The Prouty.
Capturing and Explaining the “Eye Flash Phenomenon”
What are the flashes of light patients report seeing during brain radiotherapy, even with their eyes closed? Norris Cotton Cancer Center scientists record this phenomenon for the first time and provide an explanation.