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...
by Garth Sundem | Nov 20, 2019 | Featured, Patient Care
When you think of melanoma, you picture the sun. But there is another class of these dangerous cancers that has nothing to do with sun exposure. Mucosal melanomas arise seemingly spontaneously from mucosal tissues, accounting for about 1.3 percent of all melanomas. In...
by Garth Sundem | Nov 18, 2019 | Latest News, Philanthropy
Boston-area native, Jeremy Hugh, MD, willing to be photographed with wife wearing Yankees hat There are marathons and then there’s the Boston Marathon, when the city takes a holiday and 500,000 people line the streets ten-deep to cheer on runners from all over the...
