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The director of UAB’s Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute will present the groundbreaking work taking place in the institute and the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center to identify and treat cancer.
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Some 652 participants across four states will be recruited to test the effects of exercise and diet interventions in underserved cancer survivors.
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The study’s findings show the benefits of the ketogenic diet in cancer patients, and the authors hope to expand their research to see if it will also impact cancer treatment.
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Approximately 20 percent of breast cancers found at screenings are in women ages 40-49, which is why breast imagers at UAB recommend women start having annual mammograms at age 40.
September is Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month, and UAB wants women at all life stages to understand symptoms and the preventive measures they can take.
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A bone marrow harvest completed at UAB helped fuse a lifelong relationship between the donor and recipient.
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The National Cancer Institute highlighted research from UAB that shows how the epigenetic plant-based diet in mice can prevent cancer more effectively at younger ages.
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The drug targets enzymes that control the immune response and spleen macrophages.
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Findings show that patients who received a blood or marrow transplant as a child may be at a higher risk of related death.
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As parents check off their children’s back-to-school needs, vaccinations should be top of the list.
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A gene mutation causes wrinkled skin and hair loss; turning off that mutation restores the mouse to normal appearance.
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Precision medicine found the right drug for the right patient, helping one UAB prostate cancer patient make a remarkable recovery.
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Early results for a UAB-developed viral immunotherapy to treat brain tumors in children demonstrate safety and tolerability in Phase I studies.
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The dying cells send signals to recipient tumor cells to increase aggressiveness, motility, and resistance to radiation or chemotherapy.
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Valerie Powell credits her career shift from marketing to medicine as the turning point that saved her life.
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The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center joins forces with other leading cancer centers to increase vaccination rates and screenings to eliminate HPV-related cancers, starting with cervical cancer.
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Melanoma is highly capable of spreading and can be deadly rapidly if not treated.
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A Division I softball player is seeking treatment for ovarian cancer in UAB’s Division of Gynecologic Oncology.
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UAB investigators will present innovative research at the American Society of Clinical Oncology national meeting.
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A 13-year-old girl gets to have a special training experience with UAB surgeons during robotics surgery celebration.
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