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TLC Paper Among Most Read in Cancer Journal!

April 22nd, 2025

A TLC Paper, published in Cancer on behalf of American Cancer Society, has ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by the journal in 2023*: Epigenetic aging in older breast cancer survivors and noncancer controls: preliminary findings from the Thinking and Living with Cancer Study (Rentscher et al., 2023). *Among work published in Cancer between January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023, up to 12 months after publication. …

Jeanne Mandelblatt, MD, MPH among 2023 NCI Outstanding Investigator Award Recipients

February 5th, 2024

NCI’s Outstanding Investigator Award supports accomplished leaders in cancer research, who are providing significant contributions toward understanding cancer and developing applications that may lead to a breakthrough in biomedical, behavioral, or clinical cancer research. Below are profiles of the most recent NCI Outstanding Investigator Award recipients.…

Knitting Together Aging and Cancer

January 12th, 2024

Jeanne Mandelblatt is good at bringing things together, whether it’s coalescing disparate data to better understand how screening impacts cancer outcomes or threads of colorful yarn for a new knitted blanket.…

Novel Research Shows Older Breast Cancer Survivors Experience Accelerated Aging, Worse Functional Outcomes

June 15th, 2023

In a new multicenter study, researchers from Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), UCLA and several other leading cancer centers from across the nation examined whether cancer and its treatments accelerate aging. Using novel epigenetic measures to assess biological aging, investigators found that older breast cancer survivors — particularly those exposed to chemotherapy — showed greater epigenetic aging than their same-aged peers without cancer, which may relate to worse outcomes.…

Study Shows Sleep Disturbances During the Pandemic Were Similar between Breast Cancer Survivors and Healthy Controls

May 2nd, 2022

Results from the Thinking and Living with Cancer Study (TLC) showed that the development of sleep disturbances during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic increased symptoms of depression and anxiety among older women, but the findings did not differ between women who survived breast cancer and women without cancer. It is the first study to assess sleep disturbances and mental health outcomes among cancer survivors during the pandemic.…

Vascular Defects Appear to Underlie the Progression of Parkinson’s Disease

November 12th, 2021

In an unexpected discovery, Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have identified what appears to be a significant vascular defect in patients with moderately severe Parkinson’s disease. The finding could help explain an earlier outcome of the same study, in which the drug nilotinib was able to halt motor and nonmotor (cognition and quality of life) decline in the long term.…