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Date: 06/09/2021
The University of Michigan is one of eight sites around the country that will enroll patients in a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a technology that uses ultrasound to treat liver tumors.
Date: 06/09/2021
By sequencing the RNA of individual cells within multiple benign and cancerous kidney tumors, researchers have identified the cells from which different subtypes originate, the pathways involved and how the tumor microenvironment impacts cancer development and response to treatment.
Date: 06/08/2021
ApoE, an apolipoprotein known to play roles in cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer’s, is elevated in the blood of people with pancreatic adenocarcinoma, according to this new research.
Date: 06/07/2021
The two-year project focused on reducing the use of extended-fraction radiation therapy to treat pain from incurable cancer that had spread to patients’ bones. Once a standard practice, the American Society for Radiation Oncology has recommended against the routine use of extended-fraction radiation to relieve pain from bone metastases, especially more than 10 treatments.
Date: 06/04/2021
The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has named two new assistant directors, Elena Stoffel, M.D., M.P.H. and Lawrence An, M.D., to help facilitate and enhance its community outreach and engagement efforts.
Date: 05/26/2021
A team of scientists affiliated with the led by the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and School of Dentistry, identified a mechanism by which head and neck cancer cells subvert adjacent normal tissue, allowing small clusters of cancer cells to burrow beneath the healthy tissue.
Date: 05/25/2021
Each cancer type has its color. On June 3, the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center will celebrate them all. Please plan to join us.
Date: 05/25/2021
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are known to play important roles in cancer, but very little is known about their roles in the context of the immune system’s response to cancer.
Date: 05/20/2021
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.
Date: 05/19/2021
The protein made by the ASH1L gene plays a key role in the development of acute leukemia, along with other diseases. A team from the University of Michigan has developed first-in-class small molecules to inhibit ASH1L’s SET domain.