Latest News from: University of Colorado Cancer Center

Filters close
Released: 15-Jul-2021 4:00 PM EDT
Helping Working Cancer Caregivers Manage Stress
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Bradley received a nearly $4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study ways to lessen the impacts of stress specifically on cancer caregivers who are also employed.

Released: 8-Jul-2021 12:20 PM EDT
Study Sheds Light on Mechanism of Liposome Accumulation in Tumors
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Dmitri Simberg, PhD, associate professor in the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy, released a new study of the effectiveness of different types of fluorescent labels used to monitor the accumulation of liposomes in tumors. The study was published on July 1, 2021, in ACS Nano.

Released: 3-May-2021 4:20 PM EDT
CU Cancer Center Technology Gives Kids a Welcome Distraction During Radiation Treatment
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Thirty days of radiation treatments — five days a week, with Saturdays and Sundays off — are difficult for even the toughest of adults. But for a child, they’re even harder to bear. They involve fasting, waking up early, and lying in a dark room alone, without even your parents there for support. But if during treatment you can take a trip to Agrabah to hang out with Aladdin, Jasmine, and the rest of the characters in Disney’s live-action version of “Aladdin,” it makes the sessions a lot easier to bear — not to mention it makes time go by a lot faster. Thanks to a new innovation at the CU Cancer Center, patients like 5-year-old Piper Lardes are able to do just that — watch their favorite show or movie during their treatment to make the whole experience just a little easier. The technology, called Radflix, has a calming effect on parents as well.

Released: 16-Apr-2021 3:15 PM EDT
University of Colorado Inter-campus Collaboration Wins R01 Award for Salivary Gland Cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Two University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers have received a five-year R01 Award for $497,893 per year from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study a potential new drug treatment for salivary gland cancer. The award is part of an inter-campus collaboration between Antonio Jimeno, MD, PhD, co-leader of the Developmental Therapeutics Program, and Tin Tin Su, PhD, co-leader of the Molecular and Cellular Oncology Program.

Released: 31-Mar-2021 2:25 PM EDT
CU Cancer Center Researcher Reveals New Effects of Oxygen Deprivation in Cancer Cells
University of Colorado Cancer Center

A team of University of Colorado School of Medicine researchers recently published a paper offering new insight into the role that oxygen deprivation, or hypoxia, plays in cancer development. CU Cancer Center member Joaquin Espinosa, PhD, is the senior researcher on the paper, which he hopes will help lead to more targeted treatments for cancer.

18-Mar-2021 2:55 PM EDT
CU Cancer Researcher Wins Two Awards to Study Drug-Resistant Cancer Cells
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Sabrina L. Spencer, PhD, is a CU Boulder researcher and CU Cancer Center member. Spencer recently won the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award and the Emerging Leader Award. She will use the grants to continue her research on drug resistance in cancer cells.

Released: 8-Dec-2020 10:55 AM EST
CU Cancer Center doctor untangles issues around medical cannabis
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Camille Stewart's article about medical cannabis explains issues around the drug’s legality, makes recommendations for its use before and after surgery and pushes for research on its effects on postoperative patients.

Released: 4-Dec-2020 5:30 PM EST
Changes Needed to Address Financial Hardship from Cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Until you or a loved one are facing treatment for a cancer diagnosis, you may not realize the cost associated with treatment and doctor visits.

Released: 23-Nov-2020 5:00 PM EST
CU Cancer Center Leukemia Researcher Receives NCI Outstanding Investigator Award
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Craig Jordan, PhD, has spent more than 20 years developing better treatments for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a rapidly progressing cancer of the blood and bone marrow that can spread to other parts of the body, including the lymph nodes, liver, spleen and central nervous system.

Released: 20-Nov-2020 1:20 PM EST
Alex Trebek’s Death Raising Awareness and Questions About Pancreatic Cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek announced it to the world on March 6, 2019: Like 50,000 other Americans each year, he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

Released: 1-Oct-2020 3:35 PM EDT
Black Lives Also Matter in Cancer Care
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Studies have long reported that Black cancer patients have poorer outcomes than their white counterparts.

Released: 15-Sep-2020 12:40 PM EDT
CU Researchers Come Together to Better Understand Ovarian Cancer Tumors and Treatment Outcomes
University of Colorado Cancer Center

After nearly four years of work, a group of researchers and clinicians from the University of Colorado (CU) published a paper this week in the Clinical Cancer Research that shares findings from research looking at how the composition of ovarian cancer tumors changes during chemotherapy and contributes to therapeutic response.

Released: 3-Sep-2020 4:05 PM EDT
Colorado Cancer Screening Program Earns Another Year of Funding
University of Colorado Cancer Center

July 1, 2020 marked the start of another year of funding for the Colorado Cancer Screening Program (CCSP) for Patient Navigation but just like most things in 2020… it’s not just another year for a decade long program.

Released: 4-Jun-2020 6:10 PM EDT
FIRE-SCLC analysis: Largest ever study of first-line radiosurgery for brain metastases from small cell lung cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

The international First-line Radiosurgery for Small-Cell Lung Cancer (FIRE-SCLC) analysis led by University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers and published today in JAMA Oncology shows no overall survival benefit from whole-brain radiation compared with radiosurgery in patients with small cell lung cancer.

Released: 28-May-2020 12:10 PM EDT
Colorado tool, My-DST, may pick best multiple myeloma treatment
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center team uses liquid biopsy to predict multiple myeloma drug resistance and sensitivity.

Released: 28-Apr-2020 2:30 PM EDT
Variations in side effect reporting makes drug safety unclear
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study of early-phase clinical trials finds variations in reporting of drug side effects, potentially obscuring safety.

Released: 22-Apr-2020 10:05 AM EDT
Series of Rare Right-Colon Twists Highlights Need for Doctor Vigilance with New, Targeted Anti-Cancer Drugs
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Study: with smaller clinical trials, it may be up to doctors to notice rare drug side effects

Released: 6-Apr-2020 12:05 PM EDT
New mental health challenges for cancer patients during COVID-19
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Benjamin Brewer, PsyD, is a University of Colorado Cancer Center investigator and health psychologist at the UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Bone Marrow Transplant Program. Here CU Cancer Center talks with Dr. Brewer about his patients’ new worries and about how our health system is adapting to meet the mental health needs of cancer patients during COVID-19.

Released: 2-Apr-2020 3:05 PM EDT
Colorado study overturns ‘snapshot’ model of cell cycle in use since 1974
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Live, single-cell imaging shows that cells continuously integrate the influence of growth factors, not just during G1 phase of cell cycle, as previously thought.

Released: 26-Mar-2020 11:55 AM EDT
Experimental medication to prevent heart disease may treat chemo-resistant ovarian cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center group shows CPT1A may be necessary for ovarian cancer spread, chemo-resistance. Moves toward clinical trial of CPT1A inhibitor, etomoxir, against chemo-resistant ovarian cancer.

Released: 25-Mar-2020 4:50 PM EDT
Study: Despite failures, chemo still promising against dangerous childhood brain cancer, DIPG
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Chemotherapy has been so unsuccessful against DIPG that researchers have questioned whether chemotherapy drugs are even able to reach the cancer. University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows, "... medicine does reach DIPG tissue in good quantities that have the potential to be effective against the tumor," says lead researcher.

Released: 19-Mar-2020 4:35 PM EDT
Leading chloroquine scientists weigh in on drug as possible COVID-19 treatment
University of Colorado Cancer Center

“Two independent sources with the same scientific finding make you think it’s true,” says Jean Mulcahy-Levy, MD, investigator at CU Cancer Center and associate professor in the CU School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics.

Released: 19-Mar-2020 12:05 PM EDT
COVID-19 recommendations for patients receiving anti-cancer immunotherapies
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Could medicines that activate the immune system protect against COVID-19 infection?

Released: 12-Mar-2020 12:55 PM EDT
Post-diagnosis disparities drive poorer outcomes for pediatric Black and Hispanic brain cancer patients
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Of 1,881 patients under age 19 diagnosed with cancers of the brain and central nervous system between 2000 and 2015, 52 percent of White patients lived five years from diagnosis, whereas only 44 percent of African American patients and 45 percent of Hispanic patients reached a similar milestone.

Released: 30-Jan-2020 10:55 AM EST
Less chemotherapy may have more benefit in rectal cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium shows patients with locally advanced rectal cancer receiving lower-than-recommended doses of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in fact saw their tumors shrink more than patients receiving the full dose.

Released: 16-Jan-2020 2:00 PM EST
Cancer study may accidentally help researchers create usable blood stem cells
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows healthy form of the leukemia-causing gene MLL may push pluripotent stem cells (which have proven difficult to use in human patients) to become durable hematopoietic stem cells (which are usable in patients, but have until now been impossible to make).

Released: 9-Jan-2020 8:05 AM EST
University of Colorado Cancer Center named National Pancreas Foundation Center of Excellence
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Due in part to advanced surgical techniques, more effective medicines, and a multidisciplinary approach to treating the disease, University of Colorado Cancer Center is able to operate on 30+ percent of pancreatic cancer patients, nearly double the national average.

Released: 8-Jan-2020 12:15 PM EST
Plant-derived SVC112 hits cancer stem cells, leaves healthy cells alone
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Study shows Colorado drug SVC112 stops production of proteins that cancer stem cells need to survive and grow

28-Mar-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Tarloxotinib “very promising” against NRG1-fusion cancers
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2019 shows that the clinical-stage drug, tarloxotinib, is active against NRG1-fusion cancers, in addition to the HER2/EGFR cancers for which the drug was originally designed.

Released: 12-Mar-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Treatment guidelines for breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL)
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Article recently published in Aesthetic Surgery Journal formalizes the treatment strategy for this diagnosis, offering clear guidelines for plastic and oncologic surgeons.

Released: 7-Mar-2019 2:05 PM EST
The sneaky way estrogen drives brain metastasis in non-estrogen-dependent breast cancers
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the journal Oncogene shows that while estrogen doesn’t directly affect triple-negative breast cancer cells, it can affect surrounding brain cells in ways that promote cancer cell migration and invasiveness.

Released: 1-Feb-2019 12:05 PM EST
Leaders meet in Colorado to set research agenda for early-onset colorectal cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

While overall rates of colorectal cancer are down, the rate of young people getting the disease is up 22 percent over two decades. International leaders meet in Colorado to set the research agenda to figure out why.

Released: 16-Jan-2019 1:05 PM EST
Breast cancer up to 5 times more likely to metastasize even 10 years after childbirth
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows that doctors may be underestimating the risk of and thus under-treating stage I and II breast cancers diagnosed within 10 years of childbirth.

Released: 12-Nov-2018 11:05 AM EST
Cancer stem cells get energy from protein, and it’s proving to be their Achilles’ heel
University of Colorado Cancer Center

CU Cancer Center study shows that cancer stem cells switch from metabolizing sugar to metabolizing protein. Turning off protein metabolism kills these cells.

Released: 23-Oct-2018 12:05 PM EDT
New combination treatment flips the switch on melanoma cells
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Navitoclax plus A-1210477 not only killed melanoma cells, but also killed the melanoma initiating cells (aka cancer stem cells) that often resist therapy.

Released: 12-Oct-2018 8:05 AM EDT
Cancer Stem Cells Use “Normal” Genes in Abnormal Ways
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows that "normal" gene CDK1 interacts with "abnormal" gene Sox2 to keep cancer stem cells "stemmy."

Released: 28-Sep-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Cancer Hijacks the Microbiome to Glut Itself on Glucose
University of Colorado Cancer Center

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Cancer Cell shows that leukemia undercuts the ability of normal cells to consume glucose, thus leaving more glucose available to feed its own growth.

Released: 25-Sep-2018 8:05 AM EDT
Brigatinib becomes potential new first-line option for ALK-positive non-small lung cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Results of ALTA-1 trial: Patients given brigatinib saw a statistically significant 51 percent reduction in the risk of progression or death compared with those given crizotinib.

24-Sep-2018 8:45 AM EDT
Promising Phase 1/2 Results for Entrectinib Against ROS1+ Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Results of phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials of the drug entrectinib in ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) presented on the press program of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer show a response rate of 77.4 percent for 53 patients evaluable for response, with median duration of response of 24.6 months.

Released: 12-Sep-2018 1:05 PM EDT
New Combination Treatment Targets Pre-Leukemia Stem Cells
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Omacetaxine (to block protein synthesis) with venetoclax (to block oxidative phosphorylation), was highly effective against CD123+ leukemia stem cells.

Released: 17-Aug-2018 12:15 PM EDT
Like Shark Attack and the Lottery, Unconscious Bias Influences Cancer Screening
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Doctors with personal experience of cancer are more likely to act against established guidelines to recommend that low-risk women receive ovarian cancer screening.

Released: 8-Aug-2018 11:05 AM EDT
No single test identifies all ROS1+ lung cancer patients
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows that common laboratory tests used to determine ROS1 status may return false-negative results, meaning that some patients who could benefit from ROS1-directed therapy may be slipping through the cracks.

Released: 30-Jul-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Ivosidenib earns FDA approval against IDH1+ acute myeloid leukemia
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Clinical trials at CU Cancer Center and elsewhere result in FDA approval of the drug ivosidenib for the treatment of adult patients with IDH1+ AML.

Released: 10-Jul-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Brain Metastases Common and Difficult to Treat in ROS1 Lung Cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Brain metastases were found to be fairly common in stage IV ROS1-positive cancers and in 47 percent of ROS1 patients, the brain was the first and only site of progression.

Released: 3-Jun-2018 7:05 AM EDT
Updated ALEX Trial Results Show Alectinib Further Outpacing Crizotinib in Treatment Naive ALK+ NSCLC
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Dpdated data further consolidate alectinib as the standard-of-care for first-line treatment of ALK+ non-small cell lung cancer.

Released: 30-May-2018 11:05 AM EDT
As Colorectal Cancer Rises in Young People, New Guidelines Recommend Screening Start at 45
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Study published today the journal Cancer recommends colorectal cancer screening start at age 45, five years younger than currently recommended for both men and women of all races and ethnicities.

Released: 21-May-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Ice Cream Funds Research Showing New Strategy Against Thyroid Cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows that stereotactic body radiation (SBRT) may be better against anaplastic thyroid cancer, and with fewer side effects.

Released: 26-Apr-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Largest-Ever Study of Thyroid Cancer Genetics Finds New Mutations, Suggests Immunotherapy
University of Colorado Cancer Center

CU researchers mine data of 583 patient samples of advanced differentiated thyroid cancer and 196 anaplastic thyroid cancers, showing genetic alterations, and "high mutation burden" that is an FDA-approved marker for immunotherapy.

9-Apr-2018 12:00 PM EDT
Global ROS1 Initiative Combines Patient Experience with Researcher Expertise to Target ROS1 Cancer Wherever It Grows
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at AACR 2018 describes new model for patient-researcher collaboration organized not around cancer type but around oncogene that causes many cancers


Showing results 1 – 50 of 210


close
0.21335