National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers and leading cancer organizations issued a joint statement urging the nation’s physicians, parents and young adults to get back on track with the human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccination.
A team of researchers from the Rogel Cancer Center have received a $2.9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to look at how HPV behaves in patients with head and neck cancer and how that could help identify who might benefit from less-aggressive treatment.
This 'Cancer Moonshot' research grant has been awarded to the University of Michigan's Dental School. Dr. Yu Leo Lei, a Rogel Cancer Center member, will lead researchers from U-M, other universities on new cancer prevention therapies.