Ludmil Alexandrov, PhD, and his team have discovered that smoking causes mutations in DNA. Mutations are changes to the cellular instructions encoded in the DNA of each cell. If they disturb how the cell functions, they can cause cancer. Dr. Alexandrov and his international team discovered mutations in every lung [...]
Cosette Wheeler, PhD, led a study on the impact HPV vaccination is having on the rate at which young women get pre-cancers of the cervix. She and her team used data from the New Mexico HPV Pap Registry, the only statewide surveillance program in the United States that includes complete [...]
Clinical research helps to advance our knowledge about cancer drugs and treatments. The Food and Drug Administration requires clinical trials before it approves a drug or treatment for general use. The people who take part in clinical trials not only face their cancer but also help scientists and doctors around the world [...]
Mast cells are part of the immune system, but too many abnormal mast cells can cause allergic responses, inflammation, pain, bloating and other symptoms. Mast cell disease, or mastocytosis, is a rare disease; many doctors have never even seen someone with it. Advanced mast cell disease can cause death quickly and [...]
Ellen Bewick, PhD, has discovered how blocking a protein in cancer tumors of the colon and rectum can help to fight them. The protein is called G-CSF, and blocking it fights tumors on two fronts: it keeps tumor cells from growing and multiplying; and it draws more immune cells into the tumor. [...]
New Mexico's largest annual fundraiser to benefit cancer research is slated for October 7, 2016 in Las Cruces. Proceeds from the event stay in the state and support innovative cancer research projects at UNM Cancer Center and New Mexico State University. The dinner, dance and silent auction will feature music by Will [...]
Alexandre Chigaev, PhD, and his team recently published a paper in which they describe how they forced leukemia cells into programmed cell death, a process called apoptosis. They used drugs that the United States Food and Drug Administration has already approved. Using already-approved drugs shortens the time and reduces the [...]
Cosette Wheeler, PhD, led an international team that studied the efficacy of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in women 26 years and older. The United States currently targets girls and boys in their early teen years to receive the vaccine. Information on the vaccine's efficacy in women older than the [...]
In a recently-published study, Anita Kinney, PhD, RN, and her team report that cancer genetic counseling over the telephone is no less effective than in-person counseling when it comes to delivering life-saving information. Dr. Kinney explains the research to Mike Jaxson, KSVP-FM: Read The Daily Lobo story, the Las Cruces Sun-News [...]
Dr. Cheryl Willman and top researchers found that Native American and Hispanic children had different genetic mutations than white children and needed treatments tailored just for them. Watch the NBC Nightly News report: The Bidens talk to Tom Brokaw about the Moonshot Initiative: And Tom Brokaw talks to Lester Holt [...]
The Cancer Moonshot, led by Vice President Joe Biden, will hold 99 local summits throughout the country and a summit in Washington, D. C. on Wednesday, June 29. Cheryl Willman, MD, UNM Cancer Center Director & CEO, will attend the Washington Summit and Scott Ness, PhD, will sit on the panel [...]
The UNM Health Sciences Center has joined a national network of scientists on the leading edge of drug discovery and development in the fight against cancer. Larry Sklar, PhD, will lead the new Center of Excellence that is part of the Chemical Biology Consortium. The Consoritum provides world-class expertise in high-throughput screening, structural [...]
The Dana C. Wood Trust and Estate gave $ 750,000 to the UNM Cancer Center. The state matched the gift and the matching funds enabled UNM to create an endowment to support world-renowned faculty and their research. Olivier Rixe, MD, PhD, will be invested as The Dana C. Wood Endowed [...]
With summer upon us, Marianne Berwick, PhD, shares some tips to protect your skin from cancer this summer. Skin cancer is the fifth most frequent type of cancer and melanoma is the deadliest. Dr. Berwick talks to Dan Mayfield on "The Morning Brew" https://youtu.be/BSNLpPmDc-I
An appropriation from the state of New Mexico is helping some New Mexico women get three-dimensional mammograms. A 3D mammogram takes several images of the breast and compiles them into a three-dimensional image. This enables radiologists to detect breast cancers more easily and lead to fewer call-backs for re-imaging. To [...]
Josh Rogers lost his mother, Polly, to pancreatic cancer eight years ago and began Polly's Run as a tribute to her. After their very successful first year, he turned the walk/run into an annual event to raise money and awareness for pancreatic cancer. The event also honors all those whose [...]
Yanis Boumber, MD, PhD, continues to enroll people in the "Neptune" clinical trial for lung cancer and is opening additional clinical trials for people diagnosed with lung cancer. He talked to Erica Zucco, KOB-TV, about the trials and how they use the immune system to fight lung cancer.
The second annual Splash Away Cancer! swimming fundraising event for cancer will take place May 21. Olympic champion Mike Bruner will join the event to raise money and awareness for cancer research and treatment in New Mexico. Rob Dickson and Lauren Thompson, members of event host Lobo Aquatics Club, talked to [...]
The Kevin Rudi Superhero 5K Fun Run is scheduled for April 23. Matthew Duran, President of the Kevin Rudi Foundation, talks to Chad Brummett about the run. Proceeds benefit cancer research at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Gina Felix is organizing the "Ride for the Cure NM." The annual ride raises awareness of cancer and money to support patients undergoing treatment at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. This year's ride will take place March 26. Read the media alert for more information. All are welcome. If you [...]
"Spectrum," the Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience show, opens March 18 and 19 at the Gerald Peters Gallery | Peters Project in Santa Fe. The event features a gallery viewing of the pieces by artists and scientists, public talks, and the NanoDays exhibit for children in grade school, middle school [...]
Melanie Royce, MD, PhD, talks to Adam Atchison, "KRQE This Morning," about the Lobos Love Pink Women's Basketball game. The game raises awareness for breast cancer because screening saves lives. An early diagnosis increases the chances of surviving breast cancer and gives women more options for treating the disease. Read [...]
Yanis Boumber, MD, PhD, has opened the first of ten new lung cancer clinical trials. Called Neptune, the phase 3 clinical trial combines two new immunotherapy drugs. Dr. Boumber talks to Mike Jaxson, KSVP-FM, about the trial: Read the press release and the story in the Roswell Daily Record. And, [...]
Gregory Gan, MD, PhD, studies the cells and structures around a tumor. His and others' studies suggest that what surrounds a tumor may help it to grow back and grow back more aggressively. Dr. Gan talks about his research, the grant he recently received to support his work, and what [...]
State legislators aren't known for their basketball skills, but that doesn't stop them from playing in the annual 'Hoops 4 Hope' basketball game. The game pits the House "Aggies" against the Senate "Lobos" and raises money to help New Mexicans and their families who are facing cancer. This year's game [...]
Cosette Wheeler, PhD, is an international human papillomavirus (HPV) expert and has studied HPV in New Mexico since 1987. She helped to draft the HPV Consensus Statement that all 69 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers have endorsed. Read the United Nations Secretary General's Message on World Cancer Day. Dr. [...]
Dr. Willman was invited to Washington DC to brief President's and Vice Presidents staffs at the White House Cheryl Willman, MD, director and CEO of the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center, was invited to the White House. She was one of five people invited to brief the President's and Vice President's scientific staffs on new national cancer initiatives in precision medicine, genomics, research infrastructure and cancer clinical trials. Before [...]
Ernestine Trujillo, MS, RD, LD, helps people fighting cancer get through their treatment. Instead of prescribing drugs, she prescribes foods that will help them get through treatment. It's harder that it sounds because radiation therapy and chemotherapy can make food taste different. Ernestine talks to Dan Mayfield on "The Morning [...]
Cosette Wheeler, PhD, was among the national HPV experts who drafted this Consensus Statement. The text of the Consensus Statement is below. View PDF of the statement and a full list of all supporting NCI-designated Cancer Centers. Read the press release about the statement Approximately 79 million people in the United States are currently infected with a human papillomavirus (HPV) according to the Centers [...]
In his State of the Union Address this week, President Obama announced a new national effort to focus on curing cancer. Vice President Biden will spearhead the initiative. Cheryl Willman, MD, talked to Erica Zucco about this new effort and how the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center will help the nation. [...]
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Human papillomavirus, or HPV, is one of the major causes of cervical cancer but the HPV vaccine can prevent most cases of the disease. Cosette Wheeler, PhD, is an international expert on HPV and is a member of the team that is drafting a national consensus [...]
Bridget Wilson, PhD, talks to Colton Shone, KOB-TV, about the new two-year $453,000 grant from the DOD to study myeloproliferative neoplasms. These are blood disorders in which the body produces too many red blood cells or too many platelets or in which the bone marrow in which these cells are made becomes [...]
Eating may be the last thing someone going through chemotherapy or radiation therapy wants to do. But, getting enough nutrients and calories is crucial to getting through treatment. UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center nutritionist Ernestine Trujillo, MS, RD, LD, helps people to get what they need by helping them discover what they [...]
Andrew Sussman, PhD, will be the co-Principal Investigator for a 3-year $750,000 grant that will make UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center the hub for research on cancer health disparities. Read the press release and the Albuquerque Business First article by Sal Christ. Also listen to Dr. Sussman's interview with Mike Jaxson, [...]
The new FDA-approved SAVI® Scout device is approved for use at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center and will be available at other hospitals across the country in 2016. The new device helps surgeons find the tissue to be removed during a lumpectomy. It is a wireless radio transmitter that doesn't use radiation and [...]
Physician and scientist Gregory Gan, MD, PhD, is the principal investigator for a new clinical trial that may help more people to undergo surgery to remove their pancreas tumors. And that may help more of them to live longer. The new clinical trial uses an aggressive treatment approach. “This clinical [...]
Marianne Berwick, PhD, was part of the scientific team that worked with Apple to develop a new iPhone app that helps keep track of your moles. Moles that change -- either slowly or rapidly -- can be a sign of melanoma, a deadly skin cancer. The app helps users catalog [...]
Stephanie Fine, MD, splits her time between the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center clinic in Albuquerque and the Sandoval Regional Medical Center in Rio Rancho. Other doctors at UNM Cancer Center see patients at locations around the state. Dr. Fine talks about breast cancer symptoms and screening on 2-KASA-TV:
Renata Pasqualini, PhD, talks to Mike Jaxson at KSVF-FM in Artesia, about the new compound she and her multi-institutional international team discovered. The new compound, called Vasotide™, prevents abnormal blood vessel growth. It is stable enough to be administered using eye drops and could be developed to cut off blood [...]
The UNM Lobos are donning pink to raise awareness of breast cancer when they face the University of Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors on October 17, 2015, at 5:00 pm at the 'Lobos Love Pink' football game. Stephanie Fine, MD, talks to Dan Mayfield about the game, breast cancer, and the UNM [...]
The University of New Mexico Cancer Center has been awarded the highest federal designation for cancer centers. Comprehensive designation conferred by the National Cancer Institute, has been awarded to only 45 other cancer centers in the country and recognizes: the exceptional cancer care the center delivers for cancer diagnosis and treatment; the [...]
Angela Wandinger-Ness, PhD, Laurie Hudson, PhD, and Carolyn Muller, MD, led a team at UNM Cancer Center that discovered a previously unknown effect of the pain medicine ketorolac. Ketorolac is marketed as Toradol® and used to relieve pain after surgery. The FDA approved it in the 1970s. Drs. Wandinger-Ness, Hudson, [...]
Record crowds of Lobo fans turned out for the first-ever Lobo All-Star Game. The game brought together stellar players from different eras, including Danny Granger, JR Giddens, Drew Gordon, and Tony Snell. Proceeds from the game went to the Lobo Club and to the Pink Pack Foundation which supports breast [...]
Monte Shaheen, MD, is among the authors of a paper that describes the new drug combination tested in a clinical trial. Dr. Shaheen oversaw the clinical trial at UNM Cancer Center. Once it has spread, melanoma is difficult to treat and only about 10 percent of people respond to chemotherapy. [...]
The new discovery links a common test for prostate cancer, PCA3, with a newly-discovered gene. Richard Lauer, MD, FACP, explains how this could help a million men fight prostate cancer by shedding light on how aggressive the disease might be for some men and what treatments might work well for [...]
Cosette Wheeler, PhD, published a paper with colleagues around the country that describes the results of two clinical trials. The trials showed that a single dose of the human papillomavirus vaccine Cevarix® could prevent about 75 percent of cervical cancers worldwide. Read the media alert and the Albuquerque Journal Front Page [...]
Cancer affects about 10,000 people in New Mexico each year, but what risk a particular person have? Senior Genetic Counselor Shawnia Ryan, MS, CGC, helps people to gather as much information as they can to learn their personal risk of developing cancer. She also helps them to use that information [...]
Joel Swartz, organizer and spokesperson for the Splash Away Cancer! event, tells Adam Atchison of "KRQE This Morning" about it. The event will be held at the UNM Johnson Gym pool (Seidler Natatorium) on Saturday, May 30. Registration begins at 7:30 am. All proceeds benefit the UNM Cancer Center and [...]
The UNM Cancer Center recently opened an international clinical trial to test a personalized vaccine against kidney cancer and the first patient has enrolled. Dr. Lauer talks with Adam Atchison about the clinical trial on "KRQE This Morning."
Chad Walde faces a terminal brain cancer diagnosis but he and his wife, Angela, are not giving up. Mr. Walde is among the first people in the United States to be approved for the NovoCure device; previously, the device had been approved only for recurrent brain cancer. Mr. and Mrs. Walde talk to Ryan [...]
Christopher Harriman was recently hired as the new Lobo Men's Basketball Assistant Head Coach. He talked to KOB-TV about his decision to come here: how well it fit with his career plans, the opportunity to rebuild the team, and having access to world-class cancer care at the UNM Cancer Center [...]
Anne Holmes is the first person in New Mexico to join a phase 3 clinical trial that tests a personalized vaccine for metastatic kidney cancer. Read the story the press release about the trial and about Ms. Holmes' treatment. Also read the Albuquerque Business First article by Sal Christ.
Cheryl Willman, MD, Scott Ness, PhD, and Olivier Rixe, MD, PhD, talk with Dan Mayfield on "The Morning Brew" about the new partnership, ORIEN, the UNM Cancer Center has joined. New Mexicans will now have access to even more personalized cancer treatments here in New Mexico. https://youtu.be/Kk7qfavLyYo?hd=1&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=0 Read more about [...]
Esme Finlay, MD, recently won the American Association for Hospice and Palliative Medicine's "Inspirational Leaders Under 40" award. She talked to Dan Mayfield on "The Morning Brew" about palliative care. https://youtu.be/X86qOc4Pms0
Skin cancer is on the rise and is one of the only cancers to be increasingly more common in the United States. Marianne Berwick, PhD, helped to launch a new phone app to help guide sun exposure, an important risk factor for skin cancer. The app asks questions about your [...]
Cheryl L. Willman, M.D., 2015 STC.UNM Innovation Fellow from STC.UNM on Vimeo. Cheryl Willman, MD, and C. Jeffrey Brinker, PhD, have been chosen to receive 2015 STC.UNM Innovation Fellow Awards for their achievements as two of the University of New Mexico's leading innovators. The awards will be presented at the [...]
Angela Wandinger-Ness, PhD, talks to Sarah Gustavus at New Mexico PBS about her research, cancer treatment in New Mexico and the UNM Cancer Center. They also talk about the importance of reaching young people to consider careers in the field and training people to broaden their experience with a worldwide [...]
This year, the annual Art of Systems Biology event takes place at the Gerald Peters Gallery, the Peters Project, Santa Fe. The event will take place March 27 and 28 and the gallery will exhibit the pieces through most of April. This year's theme is "Inventory of Light," to celebrate [...]
Eat a cookie and help someone fight breast cancer! For the month of March, 2015, it is that easy. Rude Boy Cookies has teamed up with the Pink Pack to raise money for the UNM Cancer Center. The Pink Pack was started by Hugh Greenwood, UNM Men's Basketball team guard, [...]
The New Mexico Senate "Lobos" beat the House of Representative "Aggies" in an exciting "Hoops 4 Hope" game in Santa Fe. Instead of dividing along party lines, the legislature divided into the House and Senate teams to raise money for the UNM Cancer Center. Coach Bob Davie, UNM Lobo Football [...]
The annual "Hoops 4 Hope" basketball game pits the New Mexico House "Aggies" against the Senate "Lobos" to raise money for cancer patients in New Mexico. The proceeds benefit the UNM Cancer Center, which offers many programs to help people with cancer throughout the state. This year's game will tip-off [...]
The University of New Mexico Cancer Center has joined the world’s largest precision cancer research collaboration to speed development of targeted cancer treatments. Anchored by The Moffitt Cancer Center and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC-James), [...]
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund announced recently that Sarah Adams, MD, renewed her Liz Tilberis grant award to support her ongoing ovarian cancer research. Congratulations! The OCRF granted nearly $6.5 million in research awards, bringing their total to more than $65 million. Read their Grant Announcement Press Release.
Ursa Brown-Glaberman, MD, talks to Dan Mayfield at The Morning Brew (below) and to with Adam Atchison at KRQE This Morning about breast cancer and why the Lobos Love Pink game is so important. http://youtu.be/BLs38o9cqck She also talked
Susan Atlas, PhD, talks with KRQE about expanding UNM's supercomputing capability. The added capability will allow for increased research efforts in genetics and genomics work.
Michelle Ozbun, PhD, runs the junior faculty training program to help the next generation of cancer researchers learn how to conduct science: how to write grants more effectively, how to keep their labs running smoothly, how to track expenses, and more. Dr. Ozbun talks to Chad Brummett on KRQE's "This [...]
Math could unlock more powerful and tailored treatments for breast cancer patients. Vittorio Cristini, PhD, a world-renowned UNM cancer researcher, explains. Read more about Dr. Cristini's work in our press release. Dr. Cristini's work is among UNM HSC's Top Ten research stories of 2014.
Dr. Fine joined the UNM Breast Cancer Team this summer. In this interview with Good Day New Mexico, she explains why a team of experts offers the best treatment and the best hope for a cure. Read more about her in this article in the Deming Headlight and in the UNM Cancer Center [...]
Bridget Wilson, PhD, talked about the 5-year $12 million grant that will fund the New Mexico Spatiotemporal Modeling Center. The STMC was one of only 10 centers funded under the NIH's program to support systems biology research. Read the article in the Albuquerque Journal and watch the KRQE news brief.
Surgeons from the UNM Cancer Center Breast Cancer Team talked recently to Bob Clark, KKOB-AM, Brittany Flowers, 2-KASA "Style" and Matt Mauro 2-KASA "This Morning", about what comprehensive breast cancer care means and why it's important. The UNM Cancer Center breast cancer team offers a team approach that encompasses medical [...]
October 2014 Update: As mentioned in the UNM Cancer Center press release, Dr. Ozbun is working with Dr. Julie Bauman, now at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Bauman won a grant to support clinical trials. One of those clinical trials is a trial that Dr. Ozbun and Dr. Andrew Cowan [...]
Dr. Royce explains in this HSC video that sometimes fear can prevent someone from going to get screened -- even if they can afford it. http://youtu.be/uGRFYYOsiNI?list=UUDv1r2CZ6HiDn8cqHcwUY_A
To raise breast cancer awareness and to honor those who have lost their battle with breast cancer, the UNM Cancer Center, UNM Hospitals and UNM Athletics will sponsor the Lobos Love Pink! football game on October 10, 2014. The Lobos will play the San Diego State Aztecs, now coached by [...]
The UNM Cancer Center received a 5-year $7 million NCI National Community Oncology Research Program grant. The NCI's NCORP grants support clinical trials programs throughout the country.The program was recently updated and now reflects the model that the UNM Cancer Center and the New Mexico Cancer Care Alliance use to bring [...]
Dr. Tudor Oprea recently won a $ 4.9 million 2-year grant to find the links between drugs, diseases and genes. He talks about his grant with Elizabeth Alvarez on KRQE-TV: http://youtu.be/NpWySIVvATY and with Charles Maynard on KSFR-FM: .
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque awarded Dr. Cheryl Willman one of its 2014 Humanitarian Awards at a gala dinner last month. Dr. Willman serves as director and CEO of the UNM Cancer Center. Read the JCC Press Release. Watch the video about Dr. Willman, shown at the gala [...]
Dr. Marianne Berwick recently went to a pool party on 2-KASA "This Morning" to share her tips for sun protection and checking your skin for melanoma. She also shares some information about choosing sunscreen. View the video: http://youtu.be/vhth2jILDRA?list=UUjtW8NX3eNlp88_vpv9kngw
Thomson Reuters, the media and information company, named Vittorio Cristini, PhD, to its list of the "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds." The list names 3,200 scientists worldwide; Dr. Cristini is one of only 99 mathematicians on the list. The list uses citations -- references to another's work -- as the [...]
For those afflicted with cancer, the fight doesn’t end once they’ve survived and for some, neither does their pain. There are ways to ease that pain. Esmé Finlay, MD, describes ways to combat pain after cancer treatment in an interview with KASA Fox 2. Listen to Dr. Finlay's interview [...]
Albuquerque The Magazine took a look at real life jobs compared to the ones in the hit series Breaking Bad on AMC. UNM Cancer Center's Medical Director Richard Lauer, MD, was interviewed as 'the oncologist.' Read Dr. Lauer's feature or the whole feature in the July issue online.
The medical physics team at the UNM Cancer Center has expanded their treatment options including a new radiation therapy option that actually is safer for the brain than usual radiation treatments. The procedure kills the new tumor and also any new tumors taking root in the brain that are too small [...]
Barbara Damron, RN, PhD, FAAN, received the presitigious C-Change Comprehensive Cancer Control Champion Award May 15, 2014. The award recognizes her multifaceted 30-year career in cancer, which spans prevention, treatment, end-of-life and survivorship care as a clinician and researcher. Read more about Dr. Damron's award in our press release, in the Albuquerque [...]
The American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) selected 40 of its members who are under 40 years old to recognize their achievements and qualities important to the pathology and laboratory sciences fields. Rama Gullapalli, MD, PhD, FCAP, was among those chosen for this prestigious recognition. Read the Media Alert about [...]
Phoebe T. Ward Jr. received a lung cancer diagnosis only six months ago. That cancer spread to her brain and she was the first patient to undergo stereotactic radiosurgery at the UNM Cancer Center. Her outlook remains upbeat, though, as she continues to battle cancer. Ms. Ward and Donna Siergiej, [...]
The Ride for the Cure NM Event was held in Madrid, NM, this past weekend. View the UNM Health Sciences Center video of the event (by Rebecca Gustaf): http://youtu.be/zAdqkvKvIS4
Dr. Marianne Berwick talked to Charles Maynard, KSFR-FM, recently about melanoma. New Mexico is one of the states with the highest rates of melanoma. Melanoma can aggressively metastasize (spread); it's the spread that can kill you. Dr. Berwick talks about surgery, a traditional and effective treatment, and new promising treatments [...]
The Annual Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience event will take place this Friday and Saturday in Santa Fe. Read about the event at The Santa Fe New Mexican and at The Weekly Alibi. Dr. Janet Oliver talks to Charles Maynard, KSFR-FM about the event: Dr. Oliver also tells 2-KASA FOX [...]
Charlie Guinn was one of the first people to undergo trans-oral robotic surgery, TORS, at the UNM Cancer Center. Andrew Cowan, MD, PhD, started the program last year. Dr. Cowan and Nathan Boyd, MD, performed the TORS procedure on Mr. Guinn. Mr. Guinn now enjoys eating his favorite foods with [...]
Shane Stanford, lead organizer and founder of the "Ride for the Cure NM" event talks to KVSF-FM in Santa Fe. The interview begins at approximately 71:45. Inspired by a dream of bikers in pink T-shirts, Shane Stanford started the "Ride for the Cure NM" event to raise money and awareness for [...]
Vittorio Cristini, PhD, uses an unconventional approach to fight cancer: he uses math and physics. He and his team recently published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. He talked to Charles Maynard, KSFR-FM Santa Fe, about his team's recent work described in the paper: Read the UNM [...]
A procedure to treat brain tumors noninvasively has come to UNM Cancer Center. Thomas Schroeder, MD, and his team developed and extensively tested the process. Dr. Schroeder explains the process in a clip from KRQE-TV. Also read the story in the Albuquerque Journal — Pinpointing a Cure — about Dr. Schroeder and [...]
The Lady Lobos are gearing up for a tough basketball game against UNLV this evening, but they will be raising awareness for an even tougher battle: the battle against breast cancer. The team will wear special white and pink uniforms with pink shoes and all attendees are encouraged to wear [...]
Anita Kinney, PhD, RN, recently talked about her research on colorectal cancer screening with Larry Ahrens on "The Morning Brew." http://youtu.be/19MVu-XFGQU Also see the article in the ASCO Post about Dr. Kinney's research.
Carolyn Muller, MD, recently joined Dr. Barry Ramo on KOAT's Healthbeat to discuss ovarian cancer. In her interview Dr. Muller explained that a diagnosis of ovarian cancer may seem frightening, but innovative treatment techniques are helping to successfully treat many cases. She and Dr. Ramo talk about tailored treatments, some even based on individual [...]
The annual "Hoops 4 Hope" basketball game aims to raise awareness and money for cancer treatment and research. Traditionally, the head football coaches of UNM and NMSU coach the legislators, however, this year there's been a change. Ray Birmingham, UNM's Head Baseball Coach, and Lou Henson will coach. Henson is a retired [...]
On Friday February 7, New Mexico's legislators will compete in the annual charity basketball game, "Hoops 4 Hope." Members of the New Mexico House of Representatives and state Senate play in the annual "Hoops 4 Hope" basketball game to help raise awareness and money for cancer treatment and research. In last [...]
