by Garth Sundem | May 28, 2020 | Featured, Latest News, Patient Care
Neil Box, PhD In the summer of 2019, Dr. Neil Box toured Colorado with the Sun Bus, attending events with over 700,000 participants and reaching 26,000 people in 46 service days. Free skin cancer screens identified 96 suspected skin cancers, including six cases of...
by Jessica Cordova | May 26, 2020 | Featured, Patient Care
Sam’s “life was saved” by an investigator-initiated trial at the University of Colorado Cancer Center Sam with his grandkids shortly after being diagnosed with metastatic melanoma. As the 2018 holidays approached, Sam was given a present he did not want. He was...
by Garth Sundem | May 18, 2020 | Featured, Latest News, Patient Care
Neil Box, PhD We all know that in the spring or before going on a beach vacation, it’s important to get a solid tan so that we don’t get burned. After all, it’s sun burns and not sun tans that cause skin cancer, right? Not so fast, says Neil Box, PhD, University of...
by Garth Sundem | May 11, 2020 | Featured, Latest News, Patient Care
Neil Box, PhD During COVID19, getting outside for socially distanced activities is one of the few forms of available recreation. But more people getting out also means more sun exposure, and so during Skin Cancer Awareness Month, University of Colorado Cancer Center...
by Garth Sundem | Dec 4, 2019 | Featured, Research
Martin McCarter, MD, and colleagues target myeloid-derived suppressor cells in melanoma In melanoma, myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are bad – the more MDSCs, the poorer a patient’s prognosis. That’s because when these MDSCs expand to accumulate near melanoma...
