Cancer
Raising Colon Cancer Awareness Among Minorities
Dr. Jose Orellana, internal medicine physician at UConn Health, discusses why some minority groups are at increased risk of the disease.
New Imaging Tool Bypasses Blade to Check for Skin Cancer
The UConn Health Center’s dermatology chair is the only dermatologist in Connecticut trained on confocal microscopy, enabling her to analyze skin lesions on a cellular level without a biopsy.
Health Center Introduces Lung Cancer Screening Program
The program’s goal is to find lung cancer in its earliest and most treatable stages.
Dental Care Leads to Free Breast Cancer Screening
The Screening with a Smile program offers mammograms to underserved women seeking dental care at the Health Center.
Health Center Research Focuses on Deadliest Form of Skin Cancer
Dr. Soheil Sam Dadras is closer to predicting which melanomas will become metastatic.
UConn Doctor’s Vaccine Technology Shows Promise in Brain Cancer Treatment
The vaccine is based on the role of heat shock protein (HSP) in immune response, an area pioneered by Dr. Pramod Srivastava.
Expanding Cancer Research at UConn
New faculty member Meg Gerrard, who previously worked at Dartmouth's comprehensive cancer center, hopes to build new cancer research programs at UConn.
New Tools to Detect Colon Cancer
UConn Health Center is one of the first medical centers to use the latest high definition endoscopes.
Seeing Below the Skin: Advanced Tools to Diagnose Cancer
UConn Health Center offers new technologies to track and visualize changes in the skin.
The Quest for New Cancer-Fighting Drugs in Marine Environments
Marcy Balunas, an assistant professor in the School of Pharamcy, has extracted a novel cancer-fighting compound from blue-green algae.