UCRF News
2019
- Researchers identify traits linked to better outcomes in HPV-linked head and neck cancer
- Study provides insights behind hyperactivation of key cell proliferation signal
- New details revealed to explain how tumors recruit blood vessels
- Scientists discover key enzyme in breast cancer proliferation, treatment resistance
- New studies aim to improve melanoma diagnosis
- Researchers identify cluster of N.C. counties with higher colorectal cancer death rates
- UNC Lineberger awards $1.35M for cancer research
- Researchers publish milestone review on the role of cell signaling proteins in cancer
2018
- Researchers identify experimental immunotherapy approach to target acute myeloid leukemia
- Study shows promise for fighting relapsed blood cancer with CAR-T immunotherapy, chemotherapy
- Scientists train a computer to classify breast cancer tumors
- Mailed HPV tests can help find women at-risk for cervical cancer, study finds
- HPV blood test shows promise for tracking head and neck cancer after treatment
- Scientists zero in on ways to boost colorectal cancer screening
- Breaking the link between obesity, gastrointestinal cancers
- Black women more likely to report not taking breast cancer medication as prescribed
- Researchers lay the foundation for personalized immune treatments for leukemia
- Stem cells show promise as drug delivery tool for childhood brain cancer
- Researchers find potential key to unlocking the immune system in pancreatic cancer
- Discovery of kidney cancer driver could lead to new treatment strategy
- Researchers clarify role of mutations in glioblastoma
- Researchers map the genome of testicular cancer
- Blood mutations could contaminate genetic analyses of tumors
- By forming clots in tumors, immune cells aid lung cancer’s spread
- Bladder cancer model could pave the way for better drug efficacy studies
- Breast cancer places greater financial burden on black women
- UNC researchers identify promising delivery method for immunotherapy combination
- UNC scientists create better laboratory tools to study cancer’s spread
- Cigarillo packaging can influence product perception, study finds
- Researchers identify molecular target for brain cancer, develop immunotherapy approach to attack it
- Researchers define structure, function of enzyme key to blood cancers
- UNC Lineberger to use Colon Cancer Coalition grant to promote screening in Eastern North Carolina
- UNC Lineberger awards $1.1M in developmental research grants
- Narrowing the gap toward precision medicine for pancreatic cancer
2017
- Skin cancer treatment selfie goes viral, has public health lessons
- Using software, researchers predict tumor markers that could be immune targets
- Biological factors don’t completely explain racial disparities for ‘good prognosis’ breast cancer
- NCI grant to help more cancer patients become tobacco-free
- Timing could matter to how responsive cancer cells are to treatment, study suggests
- Using new knowledge about cell division, researchers look to improve chemotherapy effects
- To improve melanoma treatment, researchers look to block deletion of ‘self-reactive’ immune cells
- Innovative cancer data resource expands, gains a new name
- Study sheds light on why some breast cancers have limited response to immunotherapy
- Using ‘sticky’ nanoparticles, researchers develop new strategy to boost body’s cancer defenses
- New models of kidney cancer may drive immunotherapy research
- UNC-Chapel Hill spinout company generates more than $108M in stock offering
- In ovarian cancer, researchers uncover new drivers of cell division
- Researchers map genetic changes in glioblastoma as it progresses, test potential treatment strategy
- Study confirms link between alcohol consumption, breast cancer risk in black women
- Images of health risks make indoor tanning messages more effective
- UNC Lineberger receives $4 million gift to support promising new cancer treatment
- Aggressive breast cancer grows faster in obese environment
- New insights into side effects can help prostate cancer patients choose treatments
- UNC Lineberger launches innovative cellular immunotherapy program
- Revolutionary approach for treating glioblastoma works with human cells
- Researchers unlock mechanism of drug resistance in aggressive breast cancer