Claiming more than half a million lives per year, cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the United States, right behind heart disease. More people die from some form of cancer than the next three causes (chronic respiratory diseases, stroke and various accidents) combined. The cancer centers of member universities of the Big Ten […]
Click here to read BTN LiveBIG's introduction of the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium. The cancer centers at 12 of the schools in the Big Ten have joined forces to create the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium (CRC), a collaboration on the study of cancer with an aim toward eventually finding a cure. BTN LiveBig […]
Every Big Ten school has doctors and students doing research into the causes and potential cures of cancer. Those efforts are now part of a coordinated system of research known as the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium. ?The premise of the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium is to provide a unified network of high-level academic […]