Nutritionist Ernestine Trujillo, MS, RD, LD, plays an important role in helping people through their cancer treatment: she helps them to eat. Eating keeps their strength up so that they can get through treatment. But eating during cancer treatment isn’t always easy. Trujillo offers myriad methods to help people get the nutrition they need.
The NCI's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities awarded the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center a 3-year $750,000 Geographical Management of Cancer Health Disparities Program (GMaP) grant for cancer health disparity research.
A new device to find lesions can be implanted up to a week before breast cancer surgery, making surgery easier for the woman and her team. The device uses infrared signals, like the shoplifting devices in stores. Dr. Stephanie Fine, MD, is among the first to offer its use it in New Mexico.
Pancreas cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers worldwide. In the United States, it accounts for only three percent of all diagnosed cancers but it causes almost seven percent of all cancer deaths. A pancreas cancer diagnosis often comes after age 50 and after the cancer has spread, making it difficult to remove surgically. A new clinical trial that recently opened at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center may help more people to undergo surgery to remove their pancreas tumors. And that may help more of them to live longer.
Ji-Hyun Lee, DrPH, leads the Biostatistics team at UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. "My work helps to improve patient's care," she says. Statistics is the science of collecting, summarizing, analyzing and interpreting data to make decisions. Statisticians help teams of scientists through the entire scientific process; biostatistics applies to health science areas, like cancer.
This year, more than 158,000 Americans are expected to die from lung cancer. That’s a staggering number: it’s more than all the deaths expected from breast, prostate, colon, rectum, bladder and skin cancers combined. But this grim statistic only spurs Yanis Boumber, MD, PhD, to work harder toward a cure. Boumber, a lung cancer doctor and scientist, recently joined the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center.
A new application for the Apple iPhone enables users to measure and track their moles by comparing their potential trouble spots over time. The ‘Mole Mapper’ app analyzes digital photos of moles and other skin conditions that users take with their cell phones. Scientists who study melanoma use the de-identified data from users to complement other research efforts.
An international research team led by scientists at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center discovered and developed a novel ligand peptide-mimic that inhibits abnormal overgrowth of blood vessels in retinal diseases and tumors. The discovery could lead to new drugs that keep cancers from growing. The team published a paper in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
The Turquoise Trail HOG Chapter plans to end its “Pink Your Ride — Motorcyclists Increasing Awareness (MIA)” breast cancer ride at the UNM Cancer Center.
To raise awareness of breast cancer, the UNM Lobos, UNM Hospitals and UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center are sponsoring the “Lobos Love Pink” Football game.
Cowboys for Cancer Research and the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center will continue their 33-year tradition with this year’s annual fundraiser.
The University of New Mexico Cancer Center (UNMCC) has been awarded the highest designation and rating in the United States for cancer treatment and research programs. It has received the National Cancer Institute’s “NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center” designation, identifying it as one of the leading cancer centers in the nation and the only such cancer center in New Mexico.
A team of scientists at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center published a research paper showing that a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) called ketorolac helped women with ovarian cancer to survive longer.
Monte Shaheen, MD, and colleagues from around the country recently published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine about a promising new treatment for melanoma.
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has provided a major boost for the prostate cancer field by uncovering an unprecedented mechanism for developing cancer.
A research paper published in The Lancet Oncology showed that a single dose of the human papillomavirus vaccine Cervarix® may prevent HPV-related cervical cancer.
Anita Kinney, PhD, RN, at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, has been elected to the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Care Delivery Research Steering Committee. The newly formed committee will guide nationwide research that studies how people get their cancer care and how well they fare as a result of it.
Shawnia Ryan, MS, CGC is the second certified cancer genetic counselor in the state of New Mexico. She helps people make sense of the statistics and genetic information to answer their personal cancer genetic questions.
The pain Anne Holmes felt in her arm was actually kidney cancer that had spread. She joined a phase 3 clinical trial that recently opened at the UNM Cancer Center. The trial tests a new approach that strips the invisibility cloak from spreading kidney cancer cells; it will use Holmes' own cells to create a vaccine tailored for her cancer cells.
The University of New Mexico Cancer Center enrolled its first patient in a phase 3 clinical trial that uses a person’s own kidney cancer cells to make a vaccine tailored to kill those cells.
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine celebrated the outstanding work of 44 physicians throughout the country who practice palliative medicine. Esmé Finlay, MD, at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center is one of them.
The goal of the “Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience” annual event in Santa Fe is to share stunning scientific images of nature with the public.
The annual "Hoops 4 Hope" basketball game pits the New Mexico Senate "Lobos" against the House "Aggies" to raise money for the UNM Cancer Center.
Angela Wandinger-Ness, PhD, will use a NCI-CURE grant to include underrepresented minority high school students in the UNM STEM education pipeline.
The UNM Women’s Basketball team will generously pay tribute to the courageous women battling breast cancer in our state as they have year after year.
Richard Lauer, MD, FACP and Melanie Royce, MD, PhD, both at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, were recently named to national task forces under the NCI’s new clinical trials structure, the National Clinical Trials Network.
Michelle Ozbun, PhD, at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, is improving a program that helps new scientists learn nuances of conducting science. Using a 3-year $360,000 Institutional Research grant from the American Cancer Society, the program not only distributes the funds in several $30,000 grants each year but also helps the grant awardees to manage their research. Dr. Ozbun recently won a renewal of the grant, marking the eighth time that the UNM Cancer Center has done so.
Dr. Fine is the newest member of the UNM Cancer Center's Breast Cancer Multidisciplinary Team.
Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a double mastectomy inspired many other women to seek genetic counseling, too. But for women in rural areas, getting a genetic test can impose its own set of barriers. New research by Anita Kinney, PhD, RN, offers some hope.
The Spatiotemporal Modeling Center at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center recently won a 5-year $12 million grant renewal. Bridget Wilson, PhD, of the UNM Cancer Center serves as the grant’s lead scientist at the STMC. The STMC is one of only 14 centers in the country that this program currently funds.
Surgeon Teresa Rutledge, MD, recently received the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award. Only 11 people nationwide received the award this year. Dr. Rutledge is the third faculty member in the history of the University of New Mexico Cancer Center to be recognized with this honor.
The University of New Mexico Cancer Center won a 5-year $7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute’s National Community Oncology Research Program.
The National Institutes of Health wants to make the process of finding new drugs faster and better. The effort will help all 27 of its research institutes and centers. So, the nation’s medical research agency awarded Tudor Oprea, MD, PhD, a 2-year $4.9 million grant to develop a tool scientists can use to link information about drugs, diseases and genes.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To raise awareness, University of New Mexico Athletics, UNM Hospital and UNM Cancer Center will sponsor the “Lobos Love Pink” Football game on October 10, 2014. Game organizers plan a half-time ceremony to celebrate breast cancer survivors and to honor those who have lost their battle to the disease
New Mexico’s largest cancer fundraiser will take place October 10 at the Las Cruces Convention Center. Proceeds from the dinner, dance and silent auction will fund Cowboys for Cancer Research endowments at the UNM Cancer Center in Albuquerque and at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces
UNM Cancer Center welcomes Olivier Rixe, MD, PhD, as Associate Director for Clinical Research. Dr. Rixe will bring new cancer treatments to New Mexicans as he develops programs in early-phase cancer clinical trials.
Of the 7 billion people in the world, Thomson Reuters, chose only 3,200 for its recent list of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.” Vittorio Cristini, PhD, of the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, places among them. The 2014 list represents an elite group of scientists worldwide who published enough papers ranking in the top one percent of citations in any of 21 fields. Thomson Reuters last published its list in 2001.
More and more people are surviving their cancer but they don't need to cope with lingering pain in silence. A review paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology describes what survivors can do.
The UNM Cancer Center medical physics team develops procedures to expand how they use the existing radiation equipment, giving people with cancer more options. Stereotactic radiosurgery is one of the new procedures they’ve put in place; hippocampal-sparing radiation treatment is another.
Barbara Damron, RN, PhD, FAAN, of the New Mexico Cancer Center wins the 2014 C-Change Award for her career accomplishments in cancer treatment, prevention, education and outreach.
The first-ever Global Innovation Network for Entrepreneurship and Technology Workshop will be held May 7-9,2 2014, at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center.
After more than 25 years in scientific research at UNM, Jeff Potter retired to focus on his art. Recently, He shared selected pieces at UNM Cancer Center.
Phoebe T. Ward Jr. shares her remarkable journey from lung cancer diagnosis through treatment for a metastasized brain tumor. The first patient to undergo stereotactic radiosurgery with the new procedure at UNM Cancer Center, Ms. Ward shares what she's learned about life, cancer and life with cancer.
Michelle Ozbun, PhD, recently won a $275,000 two-year grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to study human papillomavirus. Her work could lead to reducing the chemotherapy and radiation treatments that head and neck cancer patients now endure. And that could improve their quality of life afterward.
Dr. Cristini and his collaborators describe how they applied their "Master Equations of Cancer" to pancreatic cancer. It’s an application that will soon help oncologists use the mathematical model to develop treatment plans for all cancer patients.
Throat cancer survivor Charlie Guinn had stage IV throat cancer. Thanks to the new trans-oral robotic surgery he received at UNM Hospital and UNM Cancer Center, he's enjoying life again.
The UNM Cancer Center can now add stereotactic radiosurgery to its growing list of treatment options. This non-invasive outpatient procedure kills tumor cells in the brain in a single treatment. For people with brain tumors or whose cancer has spread to the brain, this treatment option can help to preserve their strength and health.
UNM Cancer Center thanks donors and celebrates the faculty’s and the institution’s achievements in cancer treatment and research at Investiture Ceremony
The “Ride for the Cure NM” event is a two-day event open to the public to raise money for cancer research and treatment. The event will take place in Madrid, NM, on Saturday, March 29 and Sunday, March 30, 2014.
The University of New Mexico Women’s Basketball team will once again pay tribute to the courageous women battling breast cancer in New Mexico. The Lady Lobos will face the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Rebels on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, at 7:00 pm in the Pit for the annual “Lobos Love Pink” basketball game for breast cancer awareness.
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