by Garth Sundem | Nov 26, 2018 | Latest News, Research
In 1960, scientists described the “Philadelphia chromosome” that causes chronic myeloid leukemia, and in 2001 the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug imatinib to disable the action of this cancer-causing genetic change. It was the dawn of...
by Garth Sundem | Oct 24, 2018 | Latest News, Research
Think of the protein BH3 like a finger that turns off a cancer cell survival switch. The problem is that most cancer cells have found ways to remove this “finger” – commonly, by breaking the action of a gene called p53 that puts the BH3 finger in motion. Now think of...
by Garth Sundem | Aug 16, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Research
Immunotherapies use the immune system to fight cancer. But cancers like melanoma have found ways to turn off the immune system, allowing them to resist treatments and often leading to recurrence. Now University of Colorado Cancer Center clinical trial results...
by Garth Sundem | Jun 22, 2018 | Latest News, Research
Doctors often treat melanoma with drugs that unblind the immune system to cancer. And brain metastases associated with melanoma are often treated with precisely targeted radiation known as radiosurgery. Now a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the...
by CU Cancer Center | Dec 11, 2017 | C3 Magazine, Research
Reducing Skin Cancer A chorus of “Whoas!” and “Wows!” filled the classroom, as a group of wide-eyed middle-schoolers peered at the eight once-colorless beads they had strung on a pipe cleaner not long before. After smearing sunscreen on four of the beads and running...
