Student Project Grant Awarded!

Congratulations to Stephanie S. Kim, a first year medical student at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, who was recently awarded a NNECOS Student Grant supporting her project, “Investigation of the increased compliance to exercise with a community rowing program during cancer treatment.” Mentored by Christi Ann Hayes, MD of the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Ms. Kim will work in collaboration with team members, Susan Brighton, MSN, APRN and Maureen Stannard, RN, BS, OCN both of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center as well as Kathleen Lyons, ScD of the Geisel School of Medicine and Carin Reynolds, JD of the Upper Valley Rowing Foundation.

This project will be a qualitative, descriptive study investigating how a community rowing program can help increase exercise adherence during cancer recovery in order to identify the specific components that facilitate attendance and promote adherence to exercise during cancer survivorship.

Student Project Grant Awarded!

Join us in congratulating Nicole Becher and Samuel Logan, medical students at The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont who were recently awarded a NNECOS Student Grant supporting their project, "Trends in risk factors and screening practices for patients with newly-diagnosed melanoma." Mentored by Assistant Professor of Surgery, Dr. Jessica Cintolo-Gonzalez, Nicole and Samuel will conduct a prospective cohort study of patients with newly-diagnosed melanoma to identify trends and potential disparities in skin screening practices.

Student Project Grant Awarded!

Retrospective case-control study to assess the incidence of BLV DNA in breast cancer tumors compared to healthy control breast tissue. Genomic testing of samples from the Vermont Cancer Center Tissue Bank will be used to identify BLV DNA with RT-PCR targeting the tax region.

Student Project Grant Awarded!

Through retrospective review of University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) patients that underwent either trimodality (i.e. neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy plus surgery) versus bimodality (i.e. definitive chemoradiotherapy alone) therapy for resectable esophageal cancers, the study will aim to better characterize the patient populations receiving each therapy. It is expected that the inclusion of older, sicker patients will challenge the rates of successful trimodality therapy presented in the literature and bimodality treatment will be associated with acute toxicities observed with neoadjuvant therapies.

Student Project Grant Awarded!

The object of this study is to characterize the risk of local recurrence, metastasis, and death of cSCC of the forearm. Results of the study will equip clinicians to more accurately discuss expected outcomes with their patients and use that information to assist in the development of a treatment plan that weighs the potential morbidity and mortality of treatment versus disease progression. Dr. Melaine Bui is the mentor for this project.

Student Project Grant Awarded!

The purpose of this project is to identify the main sources of bias and misclassification in the completion of the cause of death section on death certificates. Allie Morgan is a second-year medical student at the Geisel School of Medicine. Her mentor, Dr. Judy Rees, is Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Dartmouth and Director of the New Hampshire State Cancer Registry

Student Project Published!

Congratulations to Hyunsoo No on the recent publication of his NNECOS funded research on active surveillance for medically inoperable Stage 1A lung cancer in the elderly.

https://www.cureus.com/articles/12871-active-surveillance-for-medically-inoperable-stage-ia-lung-cancer-in-the-elderlyThrough retrospective review of University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) patients that underwent either trimodality (i.e. neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy plus surgery) versus bimodality (i.e. definitive chemoradiotherapy alone) therapy for resect able esophageal cancers, we hope to better characterize the patient populations receiving each therapy. It is expected that the inclusion of older, sicker patients will challenge the rates of successful trimodality therapy presented in the literature and bimodality treatment will be associated with acute toxicities observed with neoadjuvant therapies.

If you haven't seen it, you can also watch Hyunsoo's video where he talks about receiving the NNECOS Student grant to fund his project!

Learn more about recent student grant recipient projects:

Ally and Andrew gave a podium presentation on this project at the 2019 NNECOS Spring meeting March 23, 2019.

Meet NNECOS Student Led Grant Awardee, Lily Waddell. Lily discusses her project, Developing an Alternative Treatment for Luminal B Breast Cancer by Targeting DNA Repair Mechanisms, funded by a NNECOS Student Led Research Grant!

Meet grant recipient Hyunsoo No, whose project Incidence and Outcomes for Very Low Risk Non-Small Cell Lung Adenocarcinoma was funded in the Spring of 2016.

Congratulations Student Grant Recipient

Lily Waddell!