by Garth Sundem | Mar 25, 2020 | Featured, Latest News, Research
Adam Green, MD, CU Cancer Center investigator and pediatric brain cancer specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado The pediatric brain cancer known as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is almost uniformly fatal. In part, this is due to where and how it...
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 | Jan 21, 2020 | Featured, Research
Jean Mulcahy Levy, MD Cancers used to be defined by where they grow in the body – lung cancer, skin cancer, brain cancer, etc. But work in recent decades has shown that cancers sharing specific genetic changes may have more in common than cancers that happen to grow...
by Garth Sundem | Dec 16, 2019 | Featured, Philanthropy
Adam Green, MD The technique known as RNA sequencing lets researchers discover which genes are turned on and off in a sample of tissue. In cancer, RNA-seq (as it’s known) is used to find the faulty genes driving the disease. But not all cells within a tumor are the...
by Garth Sundem | Jul 8, 2019 | Honors, Latest News
Jean Mulcahy-Levy, md Jean Mulcahy-Levy, MD, has spent a decade researching how, why and when cells eat themselves. Healthy cells use this process, called autophagy, to recycle unneeded bits of themselves, often to survive periods of stress. Unfortunately, cancer...
