The Franco Lab explores the tumor microenvironment and its impacts on tumor progression using various multidisciplinary approaches. Our research aims to understand the role that age at the time of cancer diagnosis and the immune system play in prognosis and treatment responses.
This study enrolls patients with newly diagnosed differentiated thyroid cancer (papillary thyroid cancer or follicular thyroid cancer) that has spread to the lungs and has a genetic mutation called and RET fusion.
Pediatric Cancer Survivorship Outcomes is a division-wide, outcomes-based clinical research program invested in creating a core community of CHOP and Penn researchers committed to improving the health of childhood cancer survivors across their lifespan.
The Bauer Lab optimizes diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration, identifies markers predicting invasive behavior and prognosis, and finds targets for better treatment options for pediatric thyroid cancer.
This study enrolls patients with newly diagnosed differentiated thyroid cancer (papillary thyroid cancer or follicular thyroid cancer) that has spread to the lungs and has a genetic mutation called and NTRK fusion.
The Child and Adolescent Thyroid Consortium (CATC) Biorepository is a collaborative research program dedicated to studying thyroid cancers and other thyroid-related conditions.
