by Garth Sundem | Jul 18, 2019 | Honors, Latest News
Victor Villalobos, MD, PhD Clinical trials bring new treatments to Colorado patients, often offering innovative options years before they are available to patients outside academic medicine. The problem is that even after laboratory work and animal studies show the...
by Garth Sundem | Jul 15, 2019 | Featured, Patient Care
Sarah Tevis, MD Breast cancer patients and women undergoing cancer-preventive breast surgeries may consider combining these procedures with hysterectomy and/or ovarian removal. However, a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in Breast Journal argues...
by Garth Sundem | Jul 9, 2019 | Latest News, Research
Rachel Rabinovitch, MD Ashkenazi Jewish women have a 1-in-40 chance of carrying the BRCA mutation and these BRCA-positive women have an 80 percent lifetime risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer. A study by University of Colorado Cancer Center and Shaarei Zedek...
by Garth Sundem | Jul 8, 2019 | Honors, Latest News
Jean Mulcahy-Levy, md Jean Mulcahy-Levy, MD, has spent a decade researching how, why and when cells eat themselves. Healthy cells use this process, called autophagy, to recycle unneeded bits of themselves, often to survive periods of stress. Unfortunately, cancer...
by Garth Sundem | Jul 2, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured, Patient Care
Ben in his beloved Eldorado Canyon State Park. Photo: Rob Linnenberger. I met Ben Walburn at 4:00am on a slushy spring morning four years ago in a Boulder parking lot outside the house of a mutual friend, Adam. It was still dark and clouds spit little wet icicles as...
