by Taylor Abarca | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured, Research
Dr. Breelyn Wilky, MD, Video transcript: Good morning, I’m Dr. Breelyn Wilky from the sarcoma program at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. Sarcomas are actually a group of different cancers over a hundred different cancers of the bone and soft tissue...
by Taylor Abarca | Jun 29, 2020 | Featured, Latest News, Research
Collaborative project unites Colorado communities and health care experts to reduce head and neck cancer disparities Nearly two thousand people living in Colorado will be diagnosed with head and neck cancer (HNC) in 2020. Generally, a very aggressive disease, head and...
by Taylor Abarca | Jun 24, 2020 | Featured, Research
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the United States. In Colorado more than 2,500 people will be diagnosed with the disease and more than 1,400 will die of it in 2020. While advances in lung cancer treatment have gifted many patients with more time, the benefit of...
by CU Cancer Center | Jun 22, 2020 | Featured, Honors, Latest News, Research
While many cancer types have added new treatments including genetically targeted drugs and immunotherapies, treatment for the rare types of cancer known as sarcomas have remained largely the same for about two decades. Now, two grants to University of Colorado Cancer...
by Jessica Cordova | Jun 15, 2020 | Featured, Honors, Latest News, Research
Dr. Ramachandran is looking to improve methods for early cancer detection using cell-free DNA. University of Colorado (CU) researcher, Srinivas Ramachandran, PhD, was named one of the five 2020 Pew-Stewart Scholars. These researchers are selected to spearhead...
by Garth Sundem | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured, Latest News, Research
Jonathan Gutman, MD When a cancer patient needs a bone marrow transplant, there are four common donor sources: A matched related donor (sibling), a matched unrelated donor (from a donor database), a half-matched donor, or umbilical cord blood. Of course, there are...
