Research and Innovation
From Plant Virus to Cancer Vaccine
The idea of a vaccine for cancer is not new. But there are differences between human viruses and cancer that make creation of a cancer vaccine particularly challenging.
What is Behind Lasting Immune Response in Some Melanoma Survivors?
Resident memory T cells that enter a patient’s skin and blood during immunotherapy are behind the excellent and long-lasting immune responses to cancer that some survivors develop.
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.
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.”
What Types of Early-phase Trials are Open Now at NCCC?
In this Q&A series, Jason Faris, MD details some exciting and innovating early-phase trials underway at the cancer center.
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.
What Are Early-Phase Clinical Trials?
In this Q&A series, Jason Faris, MD, director of the Early-Phase Trials Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center explains what early-phase clinical trials are and why they are so important to the advancement of cancer care.
Where Do Prouty Donations Go? Fall 2019
Research in therapies for drug-resistant cancers, technologies to study “guardian” proteins, adapting robotic surgery tools and the world’s fastest single-photon camera are underway, funded by The Prouty.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health to Fund $1M Annually for Dedicated Cancer Clinician Research Time
A new program will create dedicated time to assist Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health clinicians in researching causes of and cures for cancer.