Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Sylvester is committed to rapidly moving advances in lifestyle medicine into clinical practice, bringing together data and computational sciences with the more traditional behavioral sciences for lifestyle medicine. Learn how our research in lifestyle medicine has evolved with Tracy Crane, PhD, MS, RDN: https://loom.ly/6ebwtQE. 🙌

Sean Stone, a rising star in Hollywood, tragically passed away just eight months after being diagnosed with metastatic neuroendocrine cancer of the colon. To honor his memory, Sean's family and friends have established the Sean Stone’s Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Fundraiser. This fund supports research led by Leader of Sylvester's Neuroendocrine Tumor Program Dr. Aman Chauhan and his team. With a focus on developing new treatments for this rare and aggressive cancer, we aim to provide hope and progress for future patients. Read about Sean’s story and our efforts.

🚨 We are thrilled to announce that Sylvester has received a $4M grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to study a survivorship care education program over the next five years. This transformative program aims to enhance primary care clinicians' ability to provide comprehensive care for cancer survivors. In collaboration with 14 Health Choice Network primary clinics in South Florida, our dedicated team, led by Dr. Frank J. Penedo, will develop end-to-end best practice guidelines. Co-principal investigators Jessica MacIntyre and Dr. Jocelyn Lawrence emphasize the program's potential to improve long-term outcomes and quality of life for survivors. This initiative builds on national standards for survivorship care developed under President Biden's Cancer Moonshot, addressing unmet supportive care needs, particularly in racial and ethnic minority populations. Learn more about our strides in cancer survivorship care. #OnlySylvester

Sylvester hosted a two-day workshop to discuss the development of cervical cancer elimination plans in Latin America and the Caribbean, alongside the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization (WHO). We are all committed to eradicating cervical cancer in our lifetime. 🙌 Representatives from 17 Caribbean countries participated. Presentations were given by Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement Dr. Erin Kobetz, radiation oncologist, Dr. Amanda Rivera and gynecologic oncologist, Dr. Navya Nair.

At the 2024 ESPY Awards, host Serena Williams announced a 10-year, $30 million 3-way partnership between the the V Foundation, DCC and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. This is the largest philanthropic partnership in The V Foundation’s history and will drive innovative and health equity research at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center! #VictoryOverCancer #OneTeamOneFight #OnlySylvester

After completing her fellowship under Dr. Francis Hornicek, Dr. Brooke Crawford maintained a strong professional bond with him through several moves and nearly 10 years. Now reunited at Sylvester, Dr. Crawford, Division Chief of Orthopaedic Oncology, describes the mentorship as invaluable. Dr. Hornicek believes mentoring is a two-way street. “Now I mentor Brooke and Brooke mentors residents,” Dr. Hornicek said. “We build an interdependency. The junior faculty can benefit from advice, but so can all the faculty, me included.” Learn how members of our Sarcoma team use mentorship for cancer #research and care: https://loom.ly/J-2TFM8.

Dr. Mikkael Sekeres, Chief of the Division of Hematology, co-authored a collaborative paper on enhancing the collection and analysis of #OverallSurvival in clinical trials, which was published by the American Association for Cancer Research. These improvements hold promise to help regulators, patients and providers better understand the benefits and risks of novel therapies. 🙌 Read the paper: https://loom.ly/0Y4MTpI.

ATTENTION PATIENTS: All UHealth hospitals and clinics are open as scheduled and under normal operations for patients. We look forward to seeing you at your appointment.

President & CEO Julie Fleshman and Chief Scientific and Medical Officer Dr. Anna Berkenblit of Pancreatic Cancer Action Network visited Sylvester to discuss our collective path forward. We're proud of our work together in advancing #pancreatic cancer research and care, and remain committed to accelerating progress. 💜🙌 Stephen Nimer Jashodeep Datta, MD Jessica MacIntyre Peter Hosein

🧠 Dr. Ashish Shah, neurosurgeon and brain cancer researcher, is weaponizing viruses to make brain cancer cells more susceptible to chemotherapy and radiation in a phase 2 trial. Learn how this viral-based gene therapy is offering hope for #glioblastoma patients. Listen now: https://loom.ly/VyS2KuA. 🎙️ #GBM #GBMDay