CU Anschutz Cancer Center@CUCancerCenter

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 Aurora, Colo.
coloradocancercenter.org
Joined October 2008
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Closing out Breast Cancer Awareness Month - cancer center's Traci Lyons, PhD, and Virginia Borges, MD, MMSc, are continuing their work on a new treatment option for patients with certain types of breast cancer — including “postpartum” breast cancer: bit.ly/4A2FQKd

Traci Lyons, PhD, and Virginia Borges, MD, MMSc, Move Their Breast Cancer Discovery Closer to Being...

Traci Lyons, PhD, and Virginia Borges, MD, MMSc, are evaluating Pearl-01, an antibody that targets the protein semaphorin 7A in breast cancer.

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Since 2019, the Deanna E. LaCamera Oncology Fellows Support and Educational Enrichment Fund in the CU Anschutz Cancer Center has supported 10 medical students every year who present at oncology conferences: news.cuanschutz.edu/cancer-c…

A Forward-Looking Legacy

The Deanna LaCamera Fund helps cancer-focused trainees advance their professional careers by providing funds for them to attend conferences.

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CU Cancer Center-led research shows how breast cancer cells hijack the lung's natural repair system, fueling tumor growth in patients who develop lung metastases. However, a repurposed drug may slow it down: bit.ly/3NGY01H
A cutout photo of a patient and a doctor. There is a line from the photo to a bubble image of a chest x-ray. The background is CU gold and white.

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Overseen by cardiologist Lavanya Kondapalli, MD, the University of Colorado Cardio-Oncology Program helps people with heart conditions undergoing treatment, as well as those who develop heart-related side effects from cancer therapies: bit.ly/4yu92Zc
A photo in a CU gold and white border of a doctor checking a patients heart. The background behind the frame is CU silver and a white grid on the right.

ALT A photo in a CU gold and white border of a doctor checking a patients heart. The background behind the frame is CU silver and a white grid on the right.
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Today's 3rd Annual Lobular Breast Cancer Awareness Day in Colorado event brought together patients, educators, researchers, and advocacy partners from across the Front Range. 🩷 Learn all about the second most common type of breast cancer here: bit.ly/4B9nPer
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Lt. Governor Dianne Primavera, and Matthew Sikora, PhD.

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One of Sikora's lab students and their poster.

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What can Pope Leo XIV’s surgery tell us about lung cancer diagnosis and treatment? CU Anschutz Cancer Center member Elizabeth A. David, MD, MAS, answers this question and more: news.cuanschutz.edu/cancer-c…
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"The truth is that the face of breast cancer is the face of an older adult,” says CU Anschutz Cancer Center’s associate director of global oncology, Enrique Soto Pérez de Celis (@EnriqueSoto8), MD, PhD: bit.ly/4dGzEPf

Older Women with Breast Cancer Face Treatment and Research Gaps

Breast cancer strikes far more often after age 50, yet the needs of older patients aren’t always met, says a CU Anschutz Cancer Center geriatric oncologist.

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Overseen by CU Anschutz Cancer Center's Bennett Chin, MD, a new theranostics suite at @uchealth University of Colorado Hospital will streamline treatment and clinical trials for certain types of cancer, notably prostate cancer and neuroendocrine tumors: bit.ly/3TNjX25
Bennett Chin, MD, and colleagues celebrating the opening of the Theranostics Suite.

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CU Anschutz Cancer Center member Alessandra Brambati, PhD, has received a National Institutes of Health (@NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award to build the molecular tools needed to study RNA-templated repair: news.cuanschutz.edu/medicine…

2 Early-Career CU Anschutz Researchers Granted NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

The awards fund critical biomedical research that is high-risk, high reward and aims to help answer some of health science’s biggest questions.

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Did you enter the Shark Tank? 🦈 🔬 On Tuesday, the Molecular and Cellular Oncology (MCO) Program offered basic scientists an opportunity to share their latest research findings in a Shark Tank-style presentation with Q&A from investigators and members of the cancer center.
The Shark Tank panel having fun. Some of them are making fins above their heads.

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The Shark Tank panel talking before the next presenter.

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“Dr. Lieu always has my family’s best interests in mind, and we have a great deal of trust in him," says Ross Matthews. Read about Matthews' six-year journey with stage 4 colorectal cancer and why he has participated in clinical research at @CUAnschutz: bit.ly/4iZC8vE
Ross Matthews in his living room sitting in a chair. He's smiling for the camera.

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CU Anschutz Cancer Center retweeted
manalikamdar@mana1981
Oct 2
Looking forward to this year’s Lymphoma Research Foundation Educational Forum! Honored to co-chair the program and excited for two days of meaningful education, discussion, and updates for our lymphoma community. Hope you can join us! @lymphoma @WomenInLymphoma @CUCancerCenter
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Oct 2
The Educational Forum is a virtual two-day conference with important information about diagnosis and treatment, clinical trials, research advances and how to manage their disease. Date: Sat. Oct 10 – Sun. Oct 11 Find more info and register: bit.ly/4hdNA47
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The CU Anschutz Cancer Center is the only location in the Rocky Mountains actively recruiting for the EvoPAR-Breast01 worldwide clinical trial. Cancer center's Marie Wood, MD, is the @CUAnschutz site principal investigator, learn more: bit.ly/4nTAEU6

CU Anschutz Cancer Center Joins a Global Clinical Trial of Breast Cancer Treatments

A CU Anschutz Cancer Center member is recruiting women with advanced breast cancer for a worldwide clinical trial investigating a pair of new therapies.

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CU Anschutz Cancer Center member Allison L’Hotta, OTD, OTR/L, PhD, received funding from @theNCI to pilot an electronic health record integration strategy for symptom screening and management in children undergoing cancer treatment: bit.ly/4dck6m9
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For Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, CU Anschutz Cancer Center's David Strauss (@SteinStraussen), MD, and Jan Lowery, PhD, MPH, talk how screening has changed for the disease over the years and what the future may look like: news.cuanschutz.edu/cancer-c…

The Evolving ‘Who’ and ‘When’ of Prostate Cancer Screening

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among U.S. men, and rates vary among different groups. When to get screened depends on who’s getting screened.

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CU Anschutz Cancer Center retweeted
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Sep 29
What were the most important SCLC developments at #WCLC 2026? @TejasPatilMD, of @CUCancerCenter, highlights three areas: 🔹 MAVERICK: MRI surveillance may be ready to replace routine prophylactic cranial irradiation for many patients with SCLC, given the lack of a clear survival or cognitive failure-free survival advantage with PCI in the modern imaging era. 🔹 B7-H3 ADCs: Phase 3 data suggest these agents could challenge topotecan’s long-standing role in relapsed SCLC and provide a more effective cytotoxic treatment strategy. 🔹 LB2102: Early phase 1 data for this DLL3-targeted CAR T-cell therapy point to a potential relationship between pre-infusion lymphocyte counts, IL-15 levels, and response, although the findings remain exploratory. Dr. Patil’s perspective offers a concise look at the SCLC studies most likely to influence practice and shape the next generation of treatment strategies. Watch: oncologynexus.com/conference… @IASLC @lungoncdoc

Dr. Tejas Patil on Key SCLC Data and Emerging Therapies at WCLC 2026 - oncologynexus.com

Tejas Patil, MD, of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, reviews key small cell lung cancer updates from WCLC 2026, including SWOG S1827 MAVERICK and the evolving role of prophylactic cranial...

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CU Anschutz Cancer Center's Rebecca Schweppe, PhD, Bryan Haugen, MD, and Jennifer Richer, PhD, received a $1.75 million grant from the DOD to translate their research into a new treatment for thyroid cancers that resist standard medications: bit.ly/4hJfHcS
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The family of Ian Shelton, PhD, which has deep CU ties, is providing major philanthropic support for an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) clinical trial run by CU Anschutz Cancer Center member Andrew Kent, MD, PhD: news.cuanschutz.edu/cancer-c…
Andrew Kent, MD, PhD, and Ian Shelton, PhD, in the Anschutz Health Sciences Building.

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CU Anschutz Cancer Center's Theresa Medina, MD, provides insight into what impact the Keytruda-intismeran combination may have for high-risk melanoma patients ⬇️ uchealth.org/today/mrna-canc…

Clinical trials: New mRNA cancer vaccine plus Keytruda sharply improves melanoma survival

A personalized melanoma vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck, used with Keytruda, greatly reduced melanoma recurrence risk in trials.

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Congratulations to Wells Messersmith, MD, the new director of the CU Anschutz Cancer Center. See the full statement: bit.ly/4yiL1oE
"New Director of the CU Anschutz Cancer Center" in smaller text, broken up by a line of CU gold dots with larger text "Wells Messersmith, MD". There is a cutout photo of Messersmith to the right, with a CU gold dotted background behind him. The CU Anschutz Cancer Center logo is in the bottom left.

ALT "New Director of the CU Anschutz Cancer Center" in smaller text, broken up by a line of CU gold dots with larger text "Wells Messersmith, MD". There is a cutout photo of Messersmith to the right, with a CU gold dotted background behind him. The CU Anschutz Cancer Center logo is in the bottom left.

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