Collaboration Results in Breakthroughs

Discovering and Delivering Compassionate, Coordinated Care 

The UMass Memorial Cancer Center of Excellence is dedicated to intensifying collaborations between basic scientists and physician/investigators throughout University of Massachusetts Medical School and the UMass Memorial Health Care system. These partnerships have established new ways of understanding tumor biology and advanced possibilities for cancer prevention, detection and therapy.

Breakthroughs

  • New strategies for early detection and cancer prevention
  • New approaches for prostate cancer therapy
  • Enhanced capabilities for bone marrow transplant
  • Treatment for malignant (cancerous) melanoma
  • Discoveries that pave the way for diagnosis of pancreatic cancer
  • A combined chemotherapy/surgical procedure for late-stage peritoneal cancer
  • Three-dimensional imaging of breast tumors
  • Clinical trials for advanced tumors using gene therapy (alteration of genes to treat disease)
  • Radiation therapy with increased precision
  • Treatment of breast and prostate cancer bone metastasis (spread of cancer)
  • Stem cell therapy for leukemia
  • New targeted therapeutics for the treatment of lymphoma