Cancer

UConn Health cancer epidemiologist Richard Stevens continues to advance research connecting artificial light at night to physiological changes in the human body. (Chris DeFrancesco/UConn Health Photo)

Lighting Adjustments Necessary for Better Health, Researchers Say

New lighting technology can better accommodate the body's circadian rhythm and avoid the detrimental effects of typical lighting, according to a paper co-authored by a UConn Health cancer epidemiologist.

Lylah Deady holds a vial of fruit flies and pupae on Feb. 20, 2015. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Abuzz Over Ovulation Similarities Between Two Very Different Species

UConn researchers say that during ovulation the same gene may govern both humans and flies, a finding that could lead to advances in treating human infertility, cancer metastasis and ovarian disease.

Dr. John Taylor meets with a urology patient at Dowling South at UConn Health in Farmington. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Urologist Picked to Lead New Bladder Cancer Institute

A donor with no previous ties to the University sought out a UConn Health expert to drive the advancement of bladder cancer care and research.

Vitamin D as Colon Cancer Foe

The director of UConn Health's Colon Cancer Prevention Program explains medicine’s growing understanding of how higher vitamin D levels may slow colon cancer.

Pramod Srivastava, UConn Health. (Lanny Nagler for UConn)

UConn Researchers Develop Personalized Ovarian Cancer Vaccines

The first genomics-driven personalized medicine clinical trial in immunotherapy of ovarian cancer begins at UConn Health this fall.

Jennifer Stroop, certified genetic counselor, at UConn Health with a patient. (UConn Health Photo)

Genetic Screening and Breast Cancer Risk

Two UConn Health genetic counselors discuss a recent call for much wider use of genetic screening for breast cancer.

Pramod K. Srivastava, an accomplished leader in basic and translational research and director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UConn Health. (UConn Photo)

UConn Health Receives $3 Million for Cancer Research

The gift from Ray ’56 (CLAS) and Carole Neag will support research on genomics-guided cancer treatment.

Dr. Agnes Kim

Beating Cancer Can Come with New Health Risks

The No. 1 killer of cancer survivors is heart disease. Here’s what UConn Health is doing about it.

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.

Medical assistant Jody D'Antonio

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.