The National Institutes of Health is awarding a $3.8 million grant to John Rossmeisl, the Dr. and Mrs. Dorsey Taylor Mahin Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, and Waldemar Debinski, cancer biology professor at the Wake Forest School of Medicine.
The director, Boris Pasche, MD, was fired one day after the National Cancer Institute renewed its funding for the center; the entire external advisory board has resigned.
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Study shows safety and efficacy of radio-wave therapy for liver cancer patients
Researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine have shown that a targeted therapy using non-thermal radio waves is safe to use in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer. The therapy also showed a benefit in overall survival.
The study findings appear online in 4Open, a journal published by EDP Sciences.
HCC accounts for nearly 90% of all liver cancers, and current survival rates are between six and 20 months. Currently, there are limited treatment options for patients with this advanced liver cancer.
Boris Pasche, M.D., Ph.D., chair of cancer biology and director of Wake Forest Baptist s Comprehensive Cancer Center