One of only 70 centers acknowledged by the National Cancer Institute, it has also been awarded a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The University of HawaiʻiCancer Center joins 69 other National Cancer Institute-designated institutions collectively recognizing insufficient vaccination as a public health threat.
Natalija Glibetic has earned first-place honors in competitions at the John A. Burns School of Medicine and College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.
The UH Cancer Center is studying how body shape information can improve health and lengthen lives by using 3D optical scanners and advanced statistical modeling.
UH researchers Yvette Amshoff, Gertraud Maskarinec and Andrew Grandinetti looked at 24 years of health data and found that patients who have type 2 diabetes in addition to other chronic diseases have a lower survival rate for colorectal cancer.