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Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah is a nationally recognized research center and treatment hospital in Salt Lake City. We are the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Mountain West and serve patients with all types of cancer from Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Wyoming. In 2021, we opened the region’s first proton therapy center. We manage the Utah Population Database, the largest genetic database in the world. More genes for inherited cancers have been discovered at our institution than any place in the world, including genes for melanoma and breast, ovarian, colon, head, and neck cancers.

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Atezolizumab/Cabozantinib Displays Promise in High-Risk mCRPC

October 12, 2021

The combination of atezolizumab and cabozantinib elicited encouraging responses, marked by an unprecedented disease control rate, in previously treated patients with locally advanced or metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, but most strikingly in patients with high-risk features.

Matsen Reflects on Changes to Breast Cancer Surgery During COVID-19

June 21, 2021

Dr. Masten reflects on the main challenges that arose during the COVID-19 lockdown with regard to surgery in patients with breast cancer, the steps that were taken as the lockdown started to lift, and the changes that have been made with regard to managing patients around the time of surgery and in the operating room.

Hormonal Agents Improve Survival in mCSPC, but Novel Targets Are Needed For Further Drug Development

January 26, 2021

Neeraj Agarwal, MD, discusses the role of docetaxel in the frontline setting, the emergence of novel hormonal agents in the paradigm, and efforts being made with combination regimens to potentially treat patients with resistant disease.

Dr. Agarwal on Data With Cabozantinib/Atezolizumab in mCRPC

May 07, 2020

Neeraj Agarwal, MD, director of the Genitourinary Oncology Program, Oncology Division, professor of medicine, physician, and investigator, at Huntsman Cancer Institute, discusses data with the combination of cabozantinib (Cabometyx) and atezolizumab (Tecentriq) in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).