by Taylor Abarca | Jun 13, 2018 | C3 Magazine, Latest News
When it comes to healthcare, what really matters to patients? In 2015 two physicians, Leana Wen, MD, MSc, Commissioner of Health for the City of Baltimore, and Suhavi Tucker, MD, from Mount Sinai Hospital, took to the streets of Washington, DC to find out. After...
by Erika Matich | Jun 13, 2018 | C3 Magazine, Featured
In 1974, First Lady Betty Ford went public with her breast cancer diagnosis and subsequent mastectomy, launching breast cancer into the national consciousness. Watergate was still fresh in everyone’s minds, and Mrs. Ford said that part of the reason she spoke so...
by Garth Sundem | Jun 13, 2018 | C3 Magazine, Latest News
Doug Thamm is a physician-scientist, learning about cancer through his experiences treating and studying patients. Only, his patients happen to have four legs. Here we speak with Thamm about the unique opportunities of veterinary medicine and how his own cancer...
by Erika Matich | Jun 13, 2018 | C3 Magazine, Latest News
Ask a kid what they want to be when they grow up and the answers are often predictable – doctor, lawyer, cop, firefighter. As a child, Chad Rusthoven, MD always said he wanted to be a doctor – it seemed like a good career choice, frequently reinforced by both teachers...
by Garth Sundem | Jun 13, 2018 | C3 Magazine, Featured
Terry Fry spent the 2016 winter holiday in the hospital – not as a patient but as a doctor. That winter, he was trying something that had never been done before, using a new drug built from his patient’s own immune cells to treat a boy whose acute lymphoblastic...
by CU Cancer Center | Dec 11, 2017 | C3 Magazine, Research
Reducing Skin Cancer A chorus of “Whoas!” and “Wows!” filled the classroom, as a group of wide-eyed middle-schoolers peered at the eight once-colorless beads they had strung on a pipe cleaner not long before. After smearing sunscreen on four of the beads and running...
