by Garth Sundem | Sep 10, 2019 | Featured, Research
Thomas Cech, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado) Healthy cells have a built-in self-destruct mechanism: Strands of DNA called “telomeres” act as protective...
by CU Cancer Center | Aug 1, 2019 | Featured, Research
Fight Colorectal Cancer (Fight CRC) is excited to announce that the manuscript titled “A summary of the Fight Colorectal Cancer working meeting: exploring risk factors and etiology of sporadic early-age onset colorectal cancer” has been published in the August edition...
by Taylor Abarca | Jul 11, 2019 | Featured, Latest News, Research
The University of Colorado Cancer Center is leading the way in the development of a new endometrial cancer clinical trial that may lead to practice-changing therapies in the future. Bradley Corr, MD “We are excited to be one of the first cancer centers in the nation...
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 | Jun 27, 2019 | Latest News, Research
Sameer Nath, MD When it comes to using radiation against lung cancer, preliminary clinical studies were pretty clear: More is better. So why did a large phase 3 clinical trial find exactly the opposite – that stage III non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with...
by Garth Sundem | Jun 25, 2019 | Latest News, Research
Dawn Duval, PhD Some of what we learn through the compassionate treatment of dogs with cancer goes on to help human patients. Now a study by researchers at University of Colorado Cancer Center and Colorado State University Flint Animal Cancer Center returns the favor:...
