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Your Phone Could Help You Hang Up on Smoking

Can your phone help you quit smoking? That's the goal of a project backed by the University of Colorado Cancer Center.


Author Mark Harden | Publish Date November 15, 2023
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Millions More with Smoking History are Recommended for Lung-Cancer Screening in New Guidance

The American Cancer Society (ACS) this week called for millions more people who formerly smoked to be screened for lung cancer than it previously recommended. But while a University of Colorado Cancer Center member calls the news “exciting,” she said the overarching challenge is to get more people already eligible to be screened.


Author Mark Harden | Publish Date November 03, 2023
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Six Years Ago, She Was Told She Had Months To Live. Therapies Old and New Keep Lung Cancer Patient Moving Forward.

news outletUCHealth
Publish DateDecember 01, 2023

Betty Moren was told she had six to nine months to live.

More than six years and countless treatments later, she’s still here.

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KDVR

CU Cell Therapy Trial Shows Results in Treating Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

news outletKDVR
Publish DateNovember 27, 2023

The lab of Angelo D’Alessandro, PhD, a professor at the CU School of Medicine, had already been working with Cambridge to understand the metabolic support of neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis, with a special focus on the role of metabolic signals driving inflammatory events that make immune cells in the brain turn against neurons.

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The Denver Post

She Was Diagnosed With Breast Cancer at 22. This Coloradan Wants Young Women To Know Their Risk.

news outletThe Denver Post
Publish DateNovember 26, 2023

Devon Brown knew not to ignore it when she found a lump in her breast that just didn’t seem quite right. “It felt very round and hard, so that was pretty abnormal,” she said.

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Colorado Public Radio

Radon and Lung Cancer Risk in Colorado

news outletColorado Public Radio
Publish DateNovember 16, 2023

CU Cancer Center member Jan Lowery, PhD, MPH, Assistant Director, Dissemination and Implementation, Office of Community Outreach and Engagement, was briefly interviewed on Colorado Public Radio about radon and lung cancer.

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