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03/13/2024 - 4:45pm

Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative Teams with BCBSM Foundation to Improve Colorectal Cancer Surgery Outcomes Statewide

Calista Harbaugh, MS, MD., colon and rectal surgeon and health services researcher, is leading the charge to help reduce as many positive margin instances among Michigan colorectal cancer patients as possible. In 2023, Harbaugh’s “Leveraging the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative (MSQC) to Improve Statewide Colorectal Cancer” project was awarded a $50,000 Investigator Initiated Research grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) Foundation.

02/28/2024 - 11:30am

New model of key brain tumor feature could help scientists understand how to develop new treatments

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center are exploiting a unique biological feature of glioblastoma to gain a better understanding of how this puzzling brain cancer develops and how to target new treatments against it. The team developed human and mouse models of glioblastoma oncostreams and examined multiple factors in the tumor microenvironment that could impact how oncostreams develop and how to reverse them.

02/06/2024 - 9:30am

How to make cancer prevention more equitable

Programs and services aimed at helping people reduce their risk of cancer don’t always meet the needs of people from diverse communities and cultures.

01/23/2024 - 9:45am

Improving cancer health equity involves everyone

Equity in cancer care has long been an important theme for Lori Pierce, M.D. She made it a focus as president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in 2021. So when the editors of The Cancer Journal selected health equity in cancer care as the topic for a recent special issue, Pierce, professor of radiation oncology at Michigan Medicine, was the ideal choice for guest editor.

01/15/2024 - 2:30pm

Pierce elected to AACR 2024 Class of Fellows of the AACR Academy

Lori J. Pierce, M.D., was one of 30 cancer scientists elected to the American Association for Cancer Research class of Fellows of the AACR Academy. Pierce was elected for illuminating contributions to establishing radiotherapy in the multimodality treatment of breast cancer, including intensity-modulated radiotherapy for node-positive breast cancer and incorporation of radiosensitizing agents, which have collectively resulted in improved treatment outcomes for breast cancer patients, most notably those harboring BRCA1/2 gene mutations.

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