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The Daily Utah Chronicle

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Rock the U Event Raises Money for Cancer

By Julianne Skrivan March 29, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Students rocked out on March 27 at the annual Rock the U dance-a-thon, but not as much as they would have liked to. YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED: GRADUATION FAIR FILLS...

New Research at the U Could Improve Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

By Mary Royal February 5, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Researchers at the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) stumbled across a breakthrough that may lead to more aggressive ways of treating pancreatic cancer. WHAT YOU MISSED:...

((Courtesy of Lisa Cannon-Albright)
Pictured is Lisa Cannon-Albright, professor and the chief of the Division of Genetic Epidemiology in the Department of Medicine at the U.)

Fighting Prostate Cancer with Genetics

By Christine Kannapel January 30, 2015

  Most of the men at the U are young and carefree, but it’s never too early to look at their family history for prostate cancer because it may benefit them in the future. Since the 1970s, Lisa...

(Photo by Chris Ayers)

Huntsman Cancer Institute Searches for the Cure

November 18, 2014

  A cancer diagnosis can be shocking, depressing and even debilitating. It can turn a patient’s world upside down and transform them from an ordinary citizen to a warrior overnight. Cancer does...

(Photo by Jameson Clifton)

Volunteers Preserve Stories at Huntsman Cancer Institute

September 21, 2014

  For nine years the Living Legacy Program has helped preserve the life stories of cancer patients in the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Living Legacy is an ongoing project of YourStory, a program supported...

(Brent Uberty) Dignitaries and special guests break ground for the new expansion of the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

New Cancer Research Center Will Focus On Childhood and Family Cancers

June 16, 2014

The Huntsman Cancer Institute broke ground on Friday for a new research center examining cancers in children. U President David Pershing said the U is "honored" to be home to the new facility, which will...

Sigma Chi raises one million for Huntsman

April 15, 2013

The national Sigma Chi fraternity donated its one millionth dollar to the Huntsman Cancer Foundation on Friday. HCF founder Jon Huntsman Sr. accepted the large dollar bill cutout symbolizing the millionth...