by Garth Sundem | Feb 12, 2020 | Featured, Research
Postdoctoral researcher, Michelle Williams, PhD The lab of CU Cancer Center investigator, Jennifer Richer, PhD, has been hot on the trail of new treatments against triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), an especially dangerous form of the disease. Recently, the lab has...
by Garth Sundem | Dec 11, 2019 | Featured, Latest News, Patient Care
Virginia Borges, MD, MMSc Phase III clinical trial results reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented concurrently at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2019 show the combination of the investigational drug tucatinib with standard...
by Taylor Abarca | Oct 4, 2019 | Featured, Patient Care
Contributing writer: Deb McCollister, PRMS Program Director at the University of Colorado Cancer Center The Cancer Center Education Work Group is going strong and held its 10th Lunch and Learn event of the year. The group has brought on a variety of expert speakers on...
by Garth Sundem | Jul 15, 2019 | Featured, Patient Care
Sarah Tevis, MD Breast cancer patients and women undergoing cancer-preventive breast surgeries may consider combining these procedures with hysterectomy and/or ovarian removal. However, a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in Breast Journal argues...
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...
