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Date: 12/30/2013
Patients with tongue cancer who started their treatment with a course of chemotherapy fared significantly worse than patients who received surgery first, according to a new study from researchers at the U-M Rogel Cancer Center.
Date: 12/04/2013
Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have discovered a new class of drugs which reduced the risk of patients contracting a serious and often deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplant treatments.
Date: 12/03/2013
Researchers at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have discovered how leukemia-causing mutations enable pre-leukemic stem cells to outperform their healthy counterparts.
Date: 11/18/2013
After 27 years leading the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, founding director Max S. Wicha, M.D., has announced that he will step down as director. While serving as director, Wicha has continued to maintain his laboratory research and clinical practice seeing patients with breast cancer. In 2003, he was part of the team that first identified breast cancer stem cells.
Date: 11/08/2013
For low-risk women, the likelihood that they get tested for the infection that causes cervical cancer (human papillomavirus or HPV) may depend on what clinic they visit, their doctor's status and whether their provider is male or female, a University of Michigan Health System study shows.
Date: 11/04/2013
Written by Nicole Fawcett
Date: 10/31/2013
Researchers from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have identified new proteins that control the function of critical immune cell subsets called T-cells, which are responsible for a serious and often deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplants.
Date: 10/24/2013
Eric Fearon among 3 U-M faculty members in this year's class.
Date: 10/16/2013
Adrenal cancer researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center are seeing the results of their laboratory studies translate to a clinical trial to test a potential new therapy in patients.
Date: 10/08/2013
Ann Arbor-area residents have one last opportunity to join the movement to create a world with less cancer and more birthdays by participating in Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3), a historic study that has the potential to change the face of cancer for future generations.

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