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At Vanderbilt, our goal is to find cures for brain cancer. We are passionately working daily toward this goal. We take findings from our laboratories and translate the results into innovative therapies for patients with brain cancer. more...
What's New
- Vanderbilt Neurosurgery Opens Clinic in Cool Springs
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has opened Vanderbilt Neurosurgery Cool Springs Clinic, a new facility located at 2009 Mallory Lane. - VICC Debuts New Radiosurgery Suite
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has opened a new radiation oncology treatment suite featuring stereotactic radiosurgery, technology that provides more precise targeting of tumors and faster delivery of the correct dose of radiation for patients diagnosed with benign or malignant tumors. VICC’s new Novalis Tx radiosurgery unit is the first of its kind in Middle Tennessee. - Cell Phones and Brain Tumors: Should You Worry?
Reid Thompson, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Brain Tumor Center and Ezra Fitz, a 31-year-old Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center patient, joined Andrew Schorr of Patient Power, in a webcast wading into the swirling debate about whether cell phones induce brain cancer.... - VICC Joins Cancer 'Hot Spot' Study
Researchers at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have joined a regional effort to determine why the Southeast is a "hot spot" for deadly brain cancers....
Innovative Technologies
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators are shedding new light on one of the factors that controls the swift spread of glioblastoma multiforme, a rare and very aggressive brain tumor. more...
