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Date: 02/25/2021
Sarah Hawley, Ph.D., M.P.H., will serve as associate director for training, education and career development for the Rogel Cancer Center.
Date: 02/18/2021
The MyProstateScore test measures levels of cancer-specific genes in a patient’s urine. It's based on U-M research that half of all prostate tumors harbor a certain genetic anomaly in which the genes TMPRSS2 and ERG relocate on a chromosome and fuse together -- creating an on-switch for prostate cancer development.
Date: 02/17/2021
130 organizations and cancer centers underscore the importance of prioritizing patients with active cancer and survivors of cancer for lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines.
Date: 02/16/2021
These encouraging results, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, could be the first step toward developing a treatment for this type of brain cancer.
Date: 02/10/2021
Homing in on about 20 key genes known to be associated with breast or ovarian cancer is likely to provide patients and their doctors with “news they can use," according to a new study.
Date: 01/30/2021
An unexpected discovery led to the question: why game-changing cancer immunotherapy treatments work for only a fraction of patients? The answer: stanniocalcin-1, a glycoprotein.
Date: 01/29/2021
A coalition of 76 organizations has released an open letter reminding the public that cancer still poses a major threat to people’s health, but acting as soon as is safely possible can lead to much better outcomes
in the future.
Date: 01/28/2021
Engineers and oncologists teamed to develop a microfluidic chip capable of capturing the body’s natural killer immune cells to harvest their cancer-killing exosomes.
Date: 01/28/2021
A new understanding of intracellular pathways activated as T cells start to mount an immune response offers clues against graft-versus-host disease, a serious complication of bone marrow transplantation.
Date: 01/26/2021
The University of Michigan ranks No. 9 among institutions globally in cancer research according to the U.S. News & World Report 2021 Best Global University Rankings.