#University of Colorado Cancer Center

“As far as we know, immunotherapy on its own would not make patients more susceptible to COVID-19."

“I felt that any small contribution I might make for sarcoma patients could have a huge impact on them and the way the disease is treated.�...

“Why would patients take more chemotherapy and have more side effects, when less chemotherapy seems equally or even more beneficial?”

The goal is to “make customizable stem cell products that could be adapted to any particular patient.”

This is not the same behavior of lactate we get from doing exercise, which has positive signaling properties to improve physical fitness.

The molecule acts specifically against head and neck cancer stem cells, resulting in better tumor control and less toxicity to healthy cells

The study followed up with people five to seven years after treatment, allowing the researchers to correlate blood factors with survival.

Targeted therapies and immunotherapies may be effective against the bone metastases that grow from primary prostate cancers.

“What the study means, and what we show, is that location or income should not hinder the use of these [drugs].”

Lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer-related death in the U.S. Despite advances in research, there are misconceptions about the disease.

Rural Americans diagnosed with cancer are more likely to die from their conditions than are urban Americans.

“Our goal is to identify risk factors that can predict or mitigate the risk of these people developing second primary cancers.”

A study will evaluate whether counseling helps to lessen symptoms of depression and anxiety and improve quality of life.

The team reasoned that if reducing DNA repair killed some cells, then a dramatically reducing DNA repair could kill even more.

By combining the tools of pathology, computational modeling and genomics, the project hopes to discover and test therapeutic interventions.

The research focuses on natural killer cells, which recognize and attack cells affected by cancer, and genes that help target invaders.