by Garth Sundem | Dec 6, 2018 | Latest News, Research
Five years after diagnosis, only 40 percent of patients with locally-advanced oral cavity cancer will still be alive. The question is who is likely to live and who is likely to die? The answer to this question could not only help patients better predict the course of...
by Garth Sundem | Sep 18, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Research
A little p63 goes a long way in embryonic development – and flaws in p63 can result in birth defects like cleft palette, fused fingers or even missing limbs. But once this early work is done, p63 goes silent, sitting quietly in the genome from that point forward....
by Garth Sundem | Aug 23, 2018 | Latest News, Research
If a new anti-cancer drug shows promise in a Petri dish, often the next step is to test the drug’s effect in mice. This system tends to work well with drugs that directly target cancer, but breaks down with immunotherapies. That’s because tumors from human cancer...
by Garth Sundem | Aug 14, 2018 | Latest News, Research
Patients with a greater than 10 pack/year history of smoking tend to develop an especially dangerous form of head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) for which prognosis remains poor and treatments have changed little during the past two decades. However, recent...
by Garth Sundem | Jun 6, 2018 | Latest News, Research
The five-year survival rate for locally-advanced head and neck cancer is only 46 percent, even with treatments including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and/or genetically targeted treatments such as cetuximab. Often, the problem is that while treatments initially...
