Allegheny Health Network

AHN Cancer Institute’s Centers of Excellence unite teams of experts to provide patients with high-quality, collaborative care in a supportive environment.

At the Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute, specialists are turning the tide on pancreatic cancer through early intervention and collaboration.

A medical team at AHN tested two courses of neoadjuvant immunotherapy for advanced gastroesophageal cancer — a relatively rare disease.

A phase 1/2 study will assess the safety and efficacy of azeliragon in patients refractory to first-line treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute’s (AHNCI) Radiation Oncology program recently attained accreditation from the American Society for Radiation Oncology APEx - Accreditation Program for Excellence® for all 13 of its radiation oncology facilities.

Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute unveiled its new, state-of-the-art Skin Cancer Center at West Penn Hospital, featuring a first-in-the-region full-body 3D imaging system that provides custom digital surveillance for skin abnormalities.

Interventional Radiologists at Allegheny Health Network's West Penn Hospital are the first in the region, and among the first in the country, to use a cutting-edge new technology called the Aliya Pulsed Electrical Field system, to target and eradicate cancer cells while preserving healthy adjacent tissues.

Colin Champ, MD, to lead AHN exercise oncology program at AGH Suburban Campus in Bellevue.

Allegheny Health Network’s Allegheny General and Forbes hospitals have earned distinguished three-star ratings from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database for their lung cancer resection surgery program.

Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute and Illumina, Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, announced a collaboration to evaluate the impact of in-house comprehensive genomic profiling to enhance patient care. 

Rebecca D. Edmonds, MD, a surgical oncologist specializing in the treatment of diseases of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder, spleen, colon, thyroid and breast, has joined the Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute.

Clinicians at the AHN Cancer Institute are taking a giant leap forward in CAR T-cell therapy.

Trevor Batey was enjoying the first years of marriage and his work as a truck driver when cancer put the brakes on his life. He was in his early 20s when he saw blood in his stool, had a colonoscopy, and was diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

Allegheny Health Network announced its new Center for Genetics and Precision Medicine, which will provide highly personalized and precise medicine by uncovering patients’ DNA changes within cancer cells to determine effective treatments.