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.
Dr. Andtbacka on T-VEC Plus Ipilimumab in Unresected Melanoma
September 8th 2014Robert H. I. Andtbacka, MD, CM, from Intermountain Healthcare and Huntsman Cancer Institute, discusses the safety and efficacy of T-VEC in combination with ipilimumab in patients with previously untreated, unresected stage IIIB-IV melanoma.
Oncologists Must Help Patients Overcome Fear of Genetic Testing to Uncover Cancer Risks
March 13th 2014In the current digital age, where all-too-personal information flows from Facebook and Twitter, it seems that the health information available through the process of genetic testing would be an idea welcomed by most of the public.
T-VEC Delivers Durable Responses in Unresectable Melanoma
July 31st 2013T-VEC manifested significant gains in durable response rate and other key clinical indicators in patients with advanced melanoma in what researchers described as the first phase III trial demonstrating the efficacy of an oncolytic virus immunotherapy.