University of Colorado Cancer Center’s Post

The goal of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is to remind men to not push off their regular screenings! Even though prostate cancer is among the most diagnosed cancers in men, it is usually curable when detected and treated early. The survival rate drops drastically as the cancer spreads beyond the immediate area of the prostate. Learn more about prostate cancer here: https://lnkd.in/gaT7EGv9 #ProstateCancerAwarenessMonth #ProstateCancer

The rates of ovarian cancer diagnoses have been falling slowly over the past two decades. However, ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer-related deaths in women in the U.S. Do you know the risk factors of this disease? Learn more about ovarian cancer here: https://lnkd.in/d6jwFpgd #OvarianCancerAwarenessMonth #OvarianCancer

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month! To honor this month, CU Cancer Center's Lia Gore, MD, spoke to us about the increasing rate of childhood cancer. Learn more about pediatric cancers here: https://lnkd.in/gvup4tKS #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth #ChildhoodCancer

September is fast approaching! Here are some of the CU Cancer Center events happening next month. Make sure to check out the event calendar for more information: https://lnkd.in/d-QRJ4YQ

Daysha Ferrer Torres, PhD, comes from the University of Michigan to join the CU Cancer Center's Katy O. and Paul M. Rady Esophageal and Gastric Center of Excellence as principal investigator! “I’m really excited to apply my expertise here, and also to gain from the research community,” says Ferrer Torres. “And I’m in love already with Colorado. Being from the Caribbean, I’m excited to see the sun more often than I did in Michigan.” Learn more about Ferrer Torres and what her cancer research goals are in this story here: https://lnkd.in/gHn5n-KD #EsophagealCancerAwareness #EsophagealCancer #CancerResearch #CancerCenter

CU Cancer Center member D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, was the opening keynote speaker at the 2024 ALK Positive Summit in Nashville! Watch his full talk "Right in Front of Us" on YouTube here: https://lnkd.in/gWc6sbY3 #LungCancerAwareness #LungCancer #ALKPositiveSummit2024

“I got the best care at the University of Colorado. If I have any friends who may have cancer, I always say, ‘That's where you need to go," says Anthony Seniw. Seniw is grateful to be part of a trial of a new esophageal cancer treatment platform overseen by CU Cancer Center member Jeffrey Olsen, MD. “In order for us to move forward, trials are the only way to do it. We all have to do our part. By participating, I'm helping this trial to move forward so eventually this treatment will be available to everybody.” Read more about Seniw's journey with esophageal cancer here: https://lnkd.in/gEnq95S5 #EsophagealCancerAwareness #EsophagealCancer #ClinicalTrials #CancerTreatment #CancerCare #CancerCenter

Breast cancer is the number-one cancer diagnosed in women worldwide and in the United States. So to mark Women’s Equality Day, we turned to CU Cancer Center member Virginia F. Borges, MD, MMSc, to ask about breast cancer and what women should know about the threat. "It behooves every woman to understand where they are on the spectrum of breast cancer risk and what they should be doing to advocate for themselves," says Borges. Read this Q&A with Borges here: https://lnkd.in/g_jdJi4Q #BreastCancerAwareness #BreastCancer #WomensEqualityDay #CancerCenter

CU Cancer Center member Douglas Ney, MD, shares the latest in brain cancer treatments and answers some common questions in this Q&A with UCHealth Today. “I think it’s a pretty exciting time in the brain tumor field right now,” Ney says. I’m super-optimistic about the field.” Read this Q&A with Ney here: https://lnkd.in/gDkTRY5t #BrainCancerAwareness #BrainCancer #Neurology #Neurologist

“This is something I’ve been trying to do for a long time,” says CU Cancer Center leader Hatim Sabaawy, MD, PhD, “and having the funding to initiate this work, with the potential of additional funding, is very exciting." The National Cancer Institute has awarded the first year of a CU Cancer Center-led study aiming to improve models for evaluating potential cancer-fighting therapies for non-small cell lung cancer. Read more about this project here: https://lnkd.in/gtcYbFb2 #LungCancerAwareness #LungCancer #Immunotherapy #CancerTreatment #CancerCenter #CancerCare