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Date: 11/13/2019
Despite the fact that half of cervical cancers are diagnosed after age 49, participation in preventive screening steadily declines between ages 45 and 65.
Date: 11/04/2019
Invasive procedures to biopsy tissue from cancer-tainted organs could be replaced by simply taking samples from a tiny “decoy” implanted just beneath the skin, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated in mice.
Date: 11/02/2019
Within minutes of breaking a bone, the body begins to repair itself, But when that process is impaired by age, diabetes or radiation treatment for cancer, surgeons at Michigan Medicine are pioneering a device shown to accelerate bone regeneration.
Date: 10/30/2019
Although it may seem very beneficial to do everything possible to treat a disease, new research led by the Rogel Cancer Center shows that, in the case of long-term surveillance of treated, low-risk thyroid cancer, doing everything possible drives up cost without improving outcomes.
Date: 10/30/2019
Celina Kleer, M.D., the Harold A. Oberman Collegiate Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School and member of the Rogel Cancer Center, will receive the 2019 AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research, supported by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Date: 10/28/2019
Rogel Cancer Center member and researcher Thomas Wang, M.D., Ph.D. is part of an interdepartmental team awarded by the National Institute for Health to study ways to improve endoscopy.
Date: 10/28/2019
Ascentage Pharma Group International, co-founded by U-M faculty member Shaomeng Wang, Ph.D., is now trading on Hong Kong’s stock exchange after an initial public offering. The company develops new therapies for cancer and other diseases.
Date: 10/21/2019
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center member Gabriel Nuñez, M.D., is among the new members of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. (The institute was formerly called the Institute of Medicine.)
Date: 10/21/2019
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.
Date: 10/18/2019
Some of the most important players on a cancer patient’s health care team are people they typically never meet or interact with -- the pathologists.