Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Marshall explains procedures MedStar and Georgetown have instituted to ensure your safety while you receive the best care possible
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Dr. Marshall talks with Today Show about why colon cancer is on the rise in young patients
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Dr. John L. Marshall addresses some of the questions he and his Georgetown Lombardi colleagues have been hearing most often from current cancer patients and survivors. Learn More
Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers are the most common and most fatal of all cancers. The Ruesch Center will re-focus national efforts on curing this deadly set of diseases.
Meet Ruesch Center Director:
John L. Marshall, MD
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is being treated for recurrence of cancer
July 20th, 2020
“The treatment she is getting is typical for pancreatic cancer. That would fit,” said John L. Marshall, director of the Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. “But her cancer history is very unusual, from a good perspective. She’s always done much better than one would have anticipated.”
Dr. Jill Smith Receives Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Innovative Research Competitive Grant
July 7th, 2020
In this Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Translational Research Grant project, Dr. Smith’s team will study the effects of a drug, proglumide, and its actions to render pancreatic cancer more responsive to therapy.
Practice-Changing GI Cancer Highlights From Virtual ASCO 2020
July 7th, 2020
Dr. John Marshall shares his personal highlights of GI cancers research from this year’s ASCO conference. There were a lot of important, practice-changing data and he touches on some big-picture themes that are really starting to hit home in GI cancer.
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