Patient Care After Colon Cancer Diagnosis, Kindness and Immunotherapy Help Young Patient By Ruth Harper-Rhode Nov. 22, 2019 There’s no sugarcoating it: A stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis at any age is scary. In your thirties, it’s downright traumatizing. Colleen Farrell felt the mental, emotional and physical trauma ...
Patient Care CLL Wonder Drug has a Downside: Weight Gain By Leslie Orr Nov. 18, 2019 The drug ibrutinib is a highly effective treatment for people with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), but a new Wilmot Cancer Institute study shows that weight gain, as a drug side effect, should be ...
Research What Brings Cancer Patients to the Emergency Room? By Leslie Orr Oct. 28, 2019 Pain, nausea, and shortness of breath are the most common reasons that cancer patients seek emergency treatment, according to a nationwide analysis including the Rochester area and patients from the ...
Research NIH Taps URMC to Help Develop New Pain Relievers to Combat Opioid Crisis By Mark Michaud Oct. 16, 2019 University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have been selected as part of a national initiative by the National Institutes of Health to develop new non-addictive treatments for pain to improve ...
Research Rochester Researchers Receive $12 Million Award to Visualize the Immune System in Action By Emily Boynton Oct. 16, 2019 Experts in immunology, vaccine biology, biomedical engineering, optics and physics will use cutting-edge imaging technologies to watch the immune system work in real time and explore ways to better ...
Research New Ovarian Cancer Treatment May Transform Care By Leslie Orr Oct. 3, 2019 Landmark clinical research shows that a new drug can extend the lives of some women with advanced ovarian cancer by nearly two years.
Research Environmental Toxins Impair Immune System over Multiple Generations By Mark Michaud Oct. 2, 2019 New research shows that maternal exposure to a common and ubiquitous form of industrial pollution can harm the immune system of offspring and that this injury is passed along to subsequent ...
