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Study: Despite failures, chemo still promising against dangerous childhood brain cancer, DIPG

Study: Despite failures, chemo still promising against dangerous childhood brain cancer, DIPG

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...
Post-diagnosis disparities drive poorer outcomes for pediatric Black and Hispanic brain cancer patients

Post-diagnosis disparities drive poorer outcomes for pediatric Black and Hispanic brain cancer patients

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...
‘Innovative Research Award’ helps CU scientists block brain cancer escape routes

‘Innovative Research Award’ helps CU scientists block brain cancer escape routes

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...
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation helps Colorado researchers explore single cells within pediatric brain tumors

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation helps Colorado researchers explore single cells within pediatric brain tumors

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...
Jean Mulcahy-Levy, MD, earns R01 grant to improve pediatric brain cancer treatment

Jean Mulcahy-Levy, MD, earns R01 grant to improve pediatric brain cancer treatment

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...
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