{"id":6926,"date":"2014-01-23T14:49:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2014-01-23T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:49:43","slug":"busm-researcher-awarded-grant-for-gastric-and-esophageal-cancer-research-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2014\/01\/23\/busm-researcher-awarded-grant-for-gastric-and-esophageal-cancer-research-education\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSM Researcher Awarded Grant for Gastric and Esophageal Cancer Research &amp; Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4682\" style=\"width: 122px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/camed\/files\/2014\/01\/Godfrey_Tony-2-5x3-53-e1359481918599-112x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4682\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Tony Godfrey, PhD\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2014\/01\/Godfrey_Tony-2-5x3-53-e1359481918599-112x150.jpg\" width=\"112\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Godfrey, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tony Godfrey, PhD, associate professor of surgery and associate chair of research in the Department of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC), was recently awarded a two-year, $225,000 grant from the DeGregorio Family Foundation for Gastric and Esophageal Cancer Research &amp;\u00a0Education. Godfrey\u00a0 and collaborators Lincoln Stein, MD, PhD, from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and Virginia Litle MD, director, Barrett\u2019s Esophageal Program at BMC, will use the funding to study Barrett&#8217;s Esophagus (BE). People with BE are at increased risk for a type of cancer called esophageal adenocarcinoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Currently, the only way to detect esophageal adenocarcinoma is with an endoscopy requiring a hospital visit. The research team is developing a new approach for esophageal cancer detection that could be performed simply in a primary care physician\u2019s office or even at home. The approach uses a sponge-containing capsule attached to a string. When swallowed, the sponge expands in the stomach and can then be pulled back through the esophagus and out of the mouth. Esophageal cells are rubbed off onto the sponge as it is pulled through the esophagus and can be examined to look for cancerous changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cOur project, clinically conducted in our Barrett\u2019s Esophagus Program at Boston Medical Center, will attempt to find cancer cells using a sensitive method to detect mutations that are known to cause esophageal adenocarcinoma,\u201d said Godfrey, who is also principal investigator of the study. \u201cIf successful, this project may lead to more wide-spread esophageal cancer screening, earlier detection of tumors and improved survival.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The DeGregorio Family Foundation seeks to promote and facilitate education and\u00a0collaborative research on the pathogenesis, early diagnosis and\u00a0treatment of upper gastrointestinal malignancies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Godfrey, PhD, associate professor of surgery and associate chair of research in the Department of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC), was recently awarded a two-year, $225,000 grant from the DeGregorio Family Foundation for Gastric and Esophageal Cancer Research &amp;\u00a0Education. Godfrey\u00a0 and collaborators Lincoln Stein, MD, PhD, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}