UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center announces endowed professor of Surgical Oncology
Fahy named one of 10 endowed professors created by the Surface Family Trust. Fahy has been with UNM since July 2013 when she was an associate professor of Surgical Oncology. In 2015, she was named associate professor of Internal Medicine in the...
23-Nov-2020 10:05 AM EST
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Molecular Shape Shifters
Our DNA acts like a book of recipes for making proteins. But if a recipe is wrong, what does a cell do Peng Mao, PhD, and his team discovered an intricate series of events that cells use to repair our DNA as the recipes are being read. Their...
22-Oct-2020 11:10 AM EDT
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“Liquid Biopsy” Can Spot Breast Cancer Cells Before a Tumor Spreads
Liquid biopsies hold promise of finding cancer in blood before they can form new tumors
24-Aug-2020 1:25 PM EDT
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Chasing the Dream
Ala Ebaid, MD, completed his fellowship in hematology/oncology at the UNM Cancer Center in June and begins clinical work in August. He's been in New Mexico for a decade, and he says he doesn't plan to leave any time soon.
13-Aug-2020 10:05 AM EDT
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Challenges Accepted
A quintessential part of facing any kind of challenge is reaping the rewards when you’ve successfully met it.
It’s an adage that can be applied to nearly any profession, including surgical oncology, and it’s what brought Vinay Rai, MD, FACS,...
10-Aug-2020 10:05 AM EDT
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Dr. Chuck Wiggins Honored with National Award
Chuck Wiggins, PhD, Director of the New Mexico Tumor Registry, was recently honored by the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries with its Calum S. Muir Memorial Award.
16-Jul-2020 6:05 AM EDT
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Lobo Cancer Challenge Goes Virtual
This year, the Lobo Cancer Challenge is meeting the challenge of a global pandemic by holding the event virtually on Saturday, Sept. 19. Far from a limitation, a virtual event will give participants the opportunity to set new courses, find different...
7-Jul-2020 6:05 AM EDT
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Food for Thought
Some people must make the difficult decision whether to put food on the table or spend money on other necessities, such as a utility bill or rent. In a recently published paper, Jean McDougall, PhD, and colleagues report the results of a 400-person...
11-Jun-2020 6:05 AM EDT
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A quest for excellence
Ivan Piñón, MD, once thought his future would lead to the lab bench. But a long career practicing as an endocrinologist has led him to the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center to serve as a crucial part of the effort to build a thyroid and parathyroid...
27-Jul-2020 6:05 AM EDT
Grounded in Science
Doctors face a difficult decision when they must choose a drug combination that will benefit the person sitting before them in an exam room. Statistics can’t show how any one person will respond to a reatment.works in people. Dr. Sarah Adams is...
3-Mar-2020 6:05 AM EST
Help to Quit
Smoking is a notoriously difficult habit to break. To make matters worse, it diminishes the effectiveness of cancer treatment. A new initiative at UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center will offer cancer patients the tools they need to beat their addiction.
1-Apr-2019 5:05 AM EDT
Robots Improve Cancer Surgery
Victor Phuoc, MD, FACS, at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center is pioneering new surgeries in New Mexico using the da Vinci robot. Robotic surgeries, he says, offer several advantages and combine the best features of open and laparoscopic surgeries...
21-Mar-2019 7:05 AM EDT
Nutritionist Helps People to Keep Eating During Their Cancer Treatment
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...
9-Dec-2015 4:05 AM EST
More than Math: Biostatistics Strengthens Cancer Research
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....
29-Oct-2015 4:05 AM EDT
Lung Cancer Specialist Brings New Treatments and Hope to New Mexicans
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...
26-Oct-2015 4:05 AM EDT
Cancer Genetic Counselor Helps People to Look Beyond the Numbers
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.
27-May-2015 6:00 AM EDT
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