by Erika Matich | Jan 3, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured, Patient Care
Tim Reagan saved Brady’s life, adopting the high-energy rescue dog from a shelter. Within a year, Brady returned the favor. “We were walking on the Friday after Thanksgiving in 2016 and in a rambunctious, playful way he jumped up and bit my arm and it felt really...
by CU Cancer Center | Jan 3, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured, Patient Care
At 32 years old and 33 weeks pregnant, Emily Daniels lived the kind of life that many of us strive to achieve. With a baby boy on the way, a loving husband, a healthy and happy 3-year-old daughter, family and friends close by, a good job, and an active social life,...
by Taylor Abarca | Jan 3, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured, Patient Care
Nearly a decade ago, a lightbulb went on in Christopher Lieu’s head. At the time, Dr. Lieu was in the beginning of his fellowship and the lightbulb was his recognition of a disturbing trend: More and more young people were being diagnosed with colon cancer. “I...
by Garth Sundem | Jan 3, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured, Patient Care
The day before Joel Rutstein planned to leave for a week-long trip to Hawaii with his wife, Barbara, and their grown children, an oncologist in Fort Collins gave Joel bad news. In the course of his annual checkup, Joel’s primary care physician had noticed a trend of...
by Garth Sundem | Nov 29, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Patient Care, Research
Clinical trial results published in the journal Nature Medicine show 91 percent response rate to the combination of venetoclax with azacitidine in older adults newly diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Of 33 patients given combination venetoclax and...
by Taylor Abarca | Sep 12, 2018 | Featured, Patient Care
With a decade of success to increase colon cancer screening rates in Colorado, the Colorado Colorectal Screening Program is getting a facelift as the Colorado Cancer Screening Program (CCSP). In an effort to provide “whole-person cancer screening” to underserved and...
