As spring days get longer and summer approaches, people begin to spend more time outdoors — especially in Colorado, with its 300 days of sunshine per year.  ..read more

Siri Lindley, a former world champion triathlete, faced her toughest challenge when diagnosed with a rare, aggressive leukemia. Visualizing her favorite mountain trail helped her endure the grueling treatment. She approached cancer like a triathlon, with determination and hope, eventually lobbying for improved access to medical trials. Thanks to a groundbreaking trial at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, she's now cancer-free, living a new life filled with gratitude and a renewed love for sports ..read more

CU Cancer Center Member Joanna Arch developed EASE therapy for late-stage cancer patients, based on written exposure therapy, to address their unique fears and anxieties. Participants write about their greatest cancer-related fears and explore coping strategies. Results show significant improvements in mental health and well-being ..read more

It looks pretty simple: A capsule the size of a jelly bean, attached to a string. And yet, it shows promise as an answer to a vexing question in the fight against esophageal cancer and other diseases of the upper digestive tract: How to spare patients from repeated endoscopies and biopsies ..read more

University of Colorado Cancer Center member Rosemary Rochford, PhD, has spent the past 34 years researching the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) a virus that causes several types of cancer, including Burkitt lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, gastric carcinoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.  ..read more

University of Colorado Cancer Center Associate Director of Clinical Research, Christopher Lieu, MD, is bringing his wealth of expertise and dedication to a new role as the Vice Chair of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN ..read more

Music can soothe, sustain, and inspire. There's evidence that it can even heal, as well as provide support through the rigors of therapy ..read more

Gary and Kathy Kortz, partners in marriage for nearly three decades, have also been partners in giving generously of their time and philanthropy for many years to support the University of Colorado Cancer Center and cancer research in general ..read more

Combining targeted therapies known as tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) can be an effective way to treat a mutation-driven form of lung cancer in cases where tumors develop resistance to treatment and where cancer has spread to other parts of the body, a University of Colorado Cancer Center member reports ..read more

With support from a $3.3 million federal grant, a pair of University of Colorado Cancer Center members will investigate how a molecule they’ve been studying for a decade is able to promote resistance to therapies for a major type of breast cancer – and how to switch off the molecule’s harmful interference ..read more