Tejas Patil, MD, led a global study of patients on three continents, focused on treatment strategies for non-small cell lung cancer. The study involved patients and researchers from the CU Cancer Center as well as cancer facilities in Canada, China, Italy, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Elena Shagisultanova, MD, PhD, is working to uncover effective treatments for HER2-positive breast cancer patients by combining different drugs to counteract the cancer cells’ proliferation.
Despite advances, breast cancer remains the number one cancer among women. Dr. Borges offers tips for lowering breast cancer risk.
The overall U.S. death rate from colorectal cancer has been gradually declining in recent years, primarily among older people, as more people get screened. But the mortality rate from “early onset” colorectal cancer in people under age 50 has been increasing year by year.