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SALT LAKE CITY - Today in
Nature Communications, researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah report critical new insights into how cells mount an attack against melanoma tumors.
Melanoma is an aggressive type of skin cancer that can arise from excess exposure to sun, frequent sunburns, genetics, and other environmental factors. Melanoma, like all cancers, begins within cells. Specially designed and refined over billions of years, cells are experts at working to root out and fix routine errors that arise. A tumor begins when a cell makes faulty copies of itself over and over again. If left unchecked, these faulty cell copies continue to grow into complex ecosystems that become tumors. Some tumors, like melanomas, can go on to develop mechanisms to sustain themselves with blood flow and oxygen. They can also send the cancerous cells through the body to proliferate in other organs, which ultimately causes death.
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SALT LAKE CITY - A letter published today by Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) in the
New England Journal of Medicine reports that melanoma mortality among Utahns outpaced that of the rest of the United States during the period from 1975 to 2013. Melanoma death rates have been decreasing in recent years both in Utah and the United States, a trend likely attributable to new, more effective treatments, like immunotherapy. However, melanoma remains the deadliest type of skin cancer, and the incidence of melanoma diagnoses in Utahns is higher than in any other state.
Big Data, Big Research, Hardball University Politics, the Baptism of the Dead, and the Utah Autism Whistleblower
By Judith Pinborough-Zimmerman and Mark Blaxill
Like it or not. Legal or not. Government collects, maintains, and even shares and sells massive amounts of your personal data. This data collection starts before you are born and continues after you die. Government knows your name(s), social security number, age, birthdate, if and whom you married, and when. Were you ever divorced? Do you have children? What are your unchanging physical characteristics, like your height and eye color? Government likely has several photos at different ages, and possibly even your DNA and fingerprints. Government knows how much you weighed at birth and how much you weighed when you got your first driver’s license. They know what kind of student you were, if you received special education services, and if you attended public schools, what your grade point average was. Th
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute
SALT LAKE CITY - Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) has been awarded a five-year, $3 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to improve Utah s colorectal cancer screening rates. The program will build on an ongoing partnership between HCI s Center for Health Outcomes and Population Equity (HOPE), the U of U s Department of Biomedical Informatics, and the Association for Utah Community Health (AUCH) to deliver health information technology and evidence-based interventions to residents across the state who are most in need, including those who are uninsured and those living in poverty.