by Taylor Abarca | Oct 9, 2019 | Featured, Honors, Research
Tejas Patil, MD University of Colorado Cancer Center member, Tejas Patil, MD, received the John Fisher Legacy Fellowship Award at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) World Conference held in Barcelona last month. Patil is the first...
by Garth Sundem | Oct 8, 2019 | Featured, Research
Manali Kamdar, MD With improved treatments, especially the use of anti-cancer immunotherapies, more than two-thirds of all patients diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) will survive. However, after treatment, patients are at a small but real risk of...
by Tyler Smith | Sep 25, 2019 | Featured, Research
Miguel and Bonita (Bonnie) Birge first met in high school, when Bonnie’s brother introduced them. The casual start became a lifetime commitment: they celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in late June. Many others share their Aurora home, including four dogs, four...
by Garth Sundem | Sep 16, 2019 | Featured, Research
Since the 1940’s, blocking the body’s production of androgen has been the only systemic therapy against prostate cancer. Today, while we’ve gotten better at targeting androgen signaling, treatments targeting the genetic causes of prostate cancer have lagged behind...
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...
