Reading time: 2minutes The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center is collaborating with the State of HawaiʻiDepartment of Human Services Med-QUEST Division to ensure patients have access to clinical cancer trials.
Reading time: 2minutes The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $2.6-million grant to University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center researchers to study the role of the BAP1 gene in human cancer development and cell metabolism.
Reading time: 2minutes A new University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center coordinated liver cancer clinical trial in Hawaiʻi combines two different immunotherapy medications to combat the aggressive disease.
Reading time: 2minutes UH Cancer Center researchers Michele Carbone and Haining Yang were awarded the grant, over a three-year period, from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Reading time: 3minutes The Early Phase Cancer Clinical Research Center will provide access to phase 1 trials for cancer patients in Hawaiʻi so they do not have to travel to the continental U.S.
Reading time: 2minutes JABSOM’s Youping Deng and his team are doing promising work in the development of a new diagnostic tool to improve the early detection of breast cancer.
Reading time: 2minutes Discoveries by UH Cancer Center researchers on ways to improve prevention, early detection and treatment of mesothelioma was featured on the cover of the September issue of Ca: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Reading time: 2minutes University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center researcher John Shepherd leads a study that looks at ways to measure body composition on long-duration space flights.