Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute have solved a long-standing mystery about how a cancer-promoting protein causes drug-resistant tumors to grow. They hope the discovery leads to more effective cancer drugs...
Patients from historically medically underserved groups, including patients of color and those who are Spanish-speaking, have less cancer family history information available to them. In addition, existing health records are...
Huntsman Cancer Institute researchers Mary Playdon, PhD, MPH, Scott Summers, PhD, and Neli Ulrich, PhD, MS received a $5 million grant on September 1, 2022. This grant will be used...
A national authority in hematology will soon lead Hematology and Hematological Malignancies at Huntsman Cancer Institute and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah Health. Dr. Ramiro Garzon's focus is patients with leukemia and...
Huntsman Cancer Institute has been awarded $300,000 from the American Cancer Society. This grant will expand Huntsman Cancer Institute's patient navigation program to rural areas throughout Utah, Montana, and Wyoming...
People of color are experiencing significant delays when they try to obtain a more targeted and effective form of radiation therapy, according to a Huntsman Cancer Institute study published in...
Patients with Hodgkin lymphoma are more likely to suffer from mental-health and substance-abuse disorders than the general population. Calling for more attention to mental health, a study published August 2...
Huntsman Cancer Institute ranks 33rd nationally for cancer care according to U.S. News and World Report. More than 4,500 medical centers were evaluated on patient safety, outcomes, research programs, and...
A new Huntsman Cancer Institute study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows frequent aspirin use is linked with lower ovarian cancer risk in people with multiple risk factors...
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah welcomes Aik Choon Tan as the first senior director of data science. “I feel honored and humbled to be joining an exceptional...
Cancer misinformation on social media can negatively influence a patient’s decision and affect their mental health, recent studies show. Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute create a resource that lays the...
New members added to The Society of Huntsman Translational Scholars. They include Gita Suneja, MD, MS; Siwen Hu-Lieskovan, MD, PhD; and Douglas Sborov, MD, MS.
Huntsman Cancer Institute’s Phyllis Pettit Nassi, MSW, attended a White House event where President Biden announced a relaunch of the Cancer Moonshot initiative. She talks about her work to reduce...
In their quest to overcome health disparities, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah Health scientists are launching SCALE-UP II and SCALE-UP Counts, a pair of initiatives designed to increase COVID-19 testing and vaccination...
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah is one of the select sites in the United States to offer a new clinical trial for glioblastoma patients, called GBM AGILE...
Huntsman Cancer Institute and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah Health welcome Amit Maity, MD, PhD, to serve as professor and chair of the department of radiation oncology for the Spencer Fox Eccles...
Detection of skin cancer relies on visual examination, making it hard to reliably determine the skin cancer subtype and its extent of invasion into the skin. Researchers at Huntsman Cancer...
Melanoma researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute published a study that gives a new explanation of what causes moles to change into melanoma. These findings pave the way for more research...
Younger B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL) survivors had a higher relative risk of developing age-related diseases than older B-NHL survivors five years of more after cancer diagnosis, according to results published...
Tee It Up Foundation has reached an incredible milestone—$1 million in funds raised for cancer research at Huntsman Cancer Institute. A longtime community partner of Huntsman Cancer Foundation, Tee It...
Huntsman Cancer Institute physician and researcher Matthew Poppe, MD, received a National Cancer Institute grant to study side effects of different types of radiation—proton therapy and traditional radiation therapy—in the...
The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve presented Douglass Clapp, nurse manager at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI), the Patriotic Employer award. Nominated by Captain Christy Jonkman, Clapp received the...
Huntsman Cancer Institute predoctoral fellow Prasoona Karra, MS, was selected to receive the National Cancer Institute Predoctoral Fellow Transition Award to support her in her late stages of PhD training...