by Taylor Abarca | Apr 23, 2020 | Featured, Patient Care
The Colorado Cancer Screening Program (CCSP) for Patient Navigation is working with the safety net clinics throughout Colorado to help respond to the coronavirus and COVID-19. “We are responding to the urgent request from our clinics, community partners...
by Chris Casey | Apr 8, 2020 | Featured, Patient Care
A year ago, when Colorado was getting pummeled by usual March snowstorms – not a pandemic – Nancy White strolled out on a rare warm day to do some yard work. Leaves bagged, she went back inside and faintly touched her side. Wham! She suddenly seized up in pain....
by Garth Sundem | Apr 6, 2020 | Featured, Patient Care
Benjamin Brewer, PsyD Benjamin Brewer, PsyD, is a University of Colorado Cancer Center investigator and health psychologist at the UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Bone Marrow Transplant Program, providing mental health and counseling services for highly...
by Garth Sundem | Mar 19, 2020 | Featured, Latest News, Patient Care
Ryan Weight, DO, MS We should all be doing our best to keep from catching COVID-19, if not for ourselves and our loved ones, then to avoid passing the disease to people in high-risk populations – like cancer patients taking chemotherapy, which can lower white blood...
by Garth Sundem | Mar 12, 2020 | Featured, Patient Care
Adam Green, MD, CU Cancer Center investigator and pediatric brain cancer specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado Cancer researchers have known for years that Black and Hispanic patients have worse outcomes than their non-Hispanic White peers. At least when it...
by Garth Sundem | Mar 5, 2020 | Featured, Latest News, Patient Care
Thomas Campbell, MD With the first cases of COVID-19 reported in Colorado, CU Cancer Center reached out to Thomas Campbell, MD, Professor in the CU School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases to ask what cancer patients should do to keep themselves safe. “It’s...
