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Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Other Top U.S. Cancer Centers Call for Urgent Action to Get Cancer-Preventing HPV Vaccination Back on Track
Dartmouth’s and D-H's Norris Cotton Cancer Center is partnering with 70 other National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers to issue a joint statement urging the nation’s physicians, parents and young adults to get the HPV vaccination back on track.

The Prouty Announces In-Person Participation for 2021
The Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center announce a hybrid Prouty event, with in-person and virtual participation options available this summer. Registration is open at TheProuty.org.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Department of Surgery Chair Elected President-Elect of the Society of Surgical Oncology
The Society of Surgical Oncology announced that Sandra L. Wong, MD, MS, FSSO, is its president-elect.

Researchers at Norris Cotton Cancer Center Are Studying the Use of Estrogen to Target Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer
An ongoing clinical trial at NCCC will determine whether the strategy of cycling between estrogen therapy and anti-estrogen therapies is effective in human patients with advanced breast cancer.

Philanthropy-Backed Accelerator Advances Cancer Therapies
Three teams receive awards from the Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer

NH Cancer Researchers Find Cellular Evidence Behind Lasting Immune Response in Some Cancer Survivors
Researchers have found that a certain subpopulation of cells that enters a patient’s skin and blood during immunotherapy is behind the excellent and long-lasting immune responses to cancer that some survivors develop.

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.

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