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Study shows fewer kids enrolling in cancer clinical trials

Study shows fewer kids enrolling in cancer clinical trials

by Garth Sundem | Apr 23, 2020 | Featured, Latest News

Historically, pediatric cancer patients have been much more likely than adult cancer patients to enroll in clinical trials as part of their treatment. Now a study by University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers working at Children’s Hospital Colorado shows...
91 percent response rate for venetoclax against newly diagnosed AML in older adults

91 percent response rate for venetoclax against newly diagnosed AML in older adults

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...
Cancer stem cells get energy from protein, and it’s proving to be their Achilles’ heel

Cancer stem cells get energy from protein, and it’s proving to be their Achilles’ heel

by Garth Sundem | Nov 12, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Research

Think of energy metabolism like a party popper: Ripping something apart releases a bang. Most of your cells rip apart sugar to release the “bang” of energy. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Cancer Cell shows that cancer stem...
Cancer hijacks the microbiome to glut itself on glucose

Cancer hijacks the microbiome to glut itself on glucose

by Garth Sundem | Sep 28, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Research

Cancer needs energy to drive its out-of-control growth. It gets energy in the form of glucose, in fact consuming so much glucose that one method for imaging cancer simply looks for areas of extreme glucose consumption – where there is consumption, there is cancer. But...
New combination treatment targets pre-leukemia stem cells

New combination treatment targets pre-leukemia stem cells

by Garth Sundem | Sep 12, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Research

Your body’s blood cells are manufactured by hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow. But just as regular, mature cells can become cancerous, so too can stem cells. When hematopoietic stem cells mutate in specific ways, the result can be damaged stem cells that create...
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