#University of Colorado Cancer Center

“Our goal is to make cancer survivors feel like they’re part of a team,” says study author Heather Leach, PhD.

The results describe the challenges people ages 18 to 39 face during and after treatment.

Not only was he diagnosed with testicular cancer at 23, but when a lung tumor resisted treatment, Daniel needed total lung removal surgery.

The major goal is to understand why the incidence of disease is increasing in young people, for the purposes of prevention and treatment.

During treatments, Tim Reagan says it was hard to get up each day to walk his dog, Brady. But getting up and out was exactly what he needed.

“I wanted to do something meaningful,” said Emily Daniels after her ALK-positive lung cancer diagnosis in 2018.

Guidelines are continuing to evolve to meet the changing landscape of cancer and the new technologies to find and treat it.

Researchers believe their greater understanding of leukemia stem cells will lead to more treatment options for people with the blood cancer.

Ongoing work hopes to discover if interventions designed to boost caregiver wellbeing could boost patient outcomes.

Insurance providers are starting to recognize the benefits of concurrent therapy and hospice care.

“The challenge now is to exploit this knowledge for therapeutics,” says researcher Joaquin Espinosa, PhD.

The study used two FDA-approved drugs to the pre-leukemic cells while leaving healthy stem cells alone.

Retinoic acid changed the immune-suppressor cells melanoma uses to shield itself.

Small Phase I trial saw an increased survival rate in people with locally advanced head and neck cancer and a history of heavy smoking.

Doctors with personal cancer experience are 17 percent likelier to prescribe cancer screenings to low-risk patients.

The digestive system breaks down all the molecules we eat—except the antibodies we ingest in breast milk.