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Clinical Trial Aims to Help Canines with Osteosarcoma
Veterinary comparative oncology researchers at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital, including members of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), are making progress on their investigation into a new immunotherapy option for canines with osteosarcoma....
Undergraduate Researchers Share Summer Projects
Undergraduate student researcher Katerina Baxter, along with several other Illinois undergrads, presented the results of their summer research projects at the Beckman Institute.A dozen Illinois students, including several affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois...
ER-positive Breast Cancer Presents Differing Metabolic Signatures in African American, White Women
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher and Director of Education, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. (Photo by L. Brian Stauffer)New research found the most common form of breast cancer presents differing metabolic signatures in the blood of African American women with...
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