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Oct 24, 2006   

Fifty UVa Doctors Top in Their Fields
This year, the number of doctors from the University of Virginia Health System selected for inclusion in the annual guide America's Top DoctorsTM (sixth edition) totaled 50. Published annually by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., the book recognizes physicians who are considered among the top one percent in the nation in their medical specialties and sub-specialties. (more)

Oct 18, 2006

UVA Study May Lead to New Treatments for Melanoma, Ovarian Cancer: Researchers Exploring Applicability for Breast Cancer, Leukemia and Lymphoma
Most of us may not realize it, but our cells have their own early warning and defense mechanisms against cancer.  Understanding how these mechanisms operate and how they may be used to thwart cancer from developing or spreading has been the focus of Dr. Angela Zarling and her research team at the University of Virginia Health System. (more)

Oct 16, 2006  UVa Researchers Seek to Unlock Broccoli's Cancer Fighting Secret After all these years, mom was right. She knew broccoli was good for you, she just didn't know it was this good. (more)
Oct 9, 2006  UVa Researchers Developing Office-Based Cancer Screening Test
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers hope to use a $1.5 million National Cancer Institute grant to develop a urine screening test that can detect cancer. (more)
Oct 3, 2006  UVa Studies Potential Target for Skin Cancer Treatment
Scientists at the U.Va. Cancer Center have studied melanoma tumors from patients at various stages of the disease over the last few years. They discovered that more than half of these tumors made cancer-testis antigens, called SPANX proteins, which play a role in the formation of the nuclear envelope of the developing human spermatid. (more)  
Sept 29, 2006  U.Va. Names Buildings in Honor of Emily Couric, Barry and Bill Battle, Ivy Foundation
At its meeting this morning, the Board of Visitors unanimously approved the naming of the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, the Barry and Bill Battle Building at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital, and the Ivy Foundation Translational Research Building. (more)  
Aug 4, 2006  Want a Top Doctor in Cancer Care? Try UVa Health System
Through nominations by their peers, 20 University of Virginia physicians were named to the 2006 list of America's Top Doctors for Cancer (second edition, Castle Connolly Medical). The number of UVa doctors selected increased from 15 last year. (more) 
May 10, 2006 

Not Your Average Colonoscopy: HDTV Technology Improves Cancer-Catching Tests
A certain UVa alumnus named Katie Couric wanted to raise awareness of how colonoscopies are the "gold standard" to stop colorectal cancer in its tracks. Her televised colonoscopy in 2000 demystified the procedure and led to a 20 percent jump in the number of colonoscopies in the United States, perhaps saving hundreds of lives.  Now, patients who get colonoscopies at the University of Virginia Health System have a new, unique advantage in the ongoing fight to stay cancer-free. UVa has purchased fifteen high-definition endoscopes and the video processing systems that go with them. (more)

April 11, 2006    

Basic Researchers at UVa Health System Keep Eyes on the Final Prize
Basic research work represents the oft-hidden genius of academic medical centers. Laboratories in which basic scientists work day after day, in many cases collaborating with physician scientists, are the sites where medical breakthroughs begin.

This is an exciting time for basic research at the Health System. In September 2005 we celebrated the groundbreaking for the Carter-Harrison Research Building - which will devote more than 100,000 square feet to research on vaccine therapy, immunology, infectious diseases, cancer and other areas of biomedicine. In December 2005, as part of a larger gift, the Ivy Foundation gave $25 million for a new translational research facility that will encourage collaboration among investigators and clinicians and will house programs that convert laboratory findings into new treatments, new medicines and new methods of prevention and early detection of disease. (more)

Feb 8, 2006  UVa Cancer Center Researchers Create Highly Accurate Test for Bladder Cancer
Dr. Dan Theodorescu and his team from the UVa Paul Mellon Prostate Cancer Institute and the University of Virginia Health System and colleagues in industry have created a test that correctly identified all samples of known cancer and all samples from healthy subjects in a clinical study. The test was found to be very specific (correctly sorting cancer from noncancer samples) and sensitive (finding all cancer samples out of all of the samples tested). The test can be used on a sample of urine provided by the patient. (more)
Jan 18, 2006  Cancer Center Scientist Honored With Second-Most Cited Research Paper Of The Decade
Cancer Center researcher, Wladek Minor,  is a pioneer in the growing field of protein crystallography. His lab's work is not going unnoticed. A 1997 paper, "Processing of X-ray Differentiation Data Collected in Oscillation Mode," published with Zbyszek Otwinowski, a colleague at the University of Texas, is now the second-most cited scientific paper in the world in the last ten years, according to The Scientist magazine. (more)