Cancer League of Colorado was a founding institution for the Cancer Center at the University of Colorado Health Science Center, the only comprehensive cancer center in the Rocky Mountain Region. In addition, Cancer League was instrumental in funding the Colorado Ronald McDonald House. Our funding played a major role in the following discoveries:
Establishment of a link between DDT and testicular, prostate and breast cancer
Discovery of a protein that controls silencing DNA cell processes, which, if mutate, can lead to cancer
Identification of cancer-specific gene expression markers
Discovery of a region of cell cycle protein, which is essential for its function in regulating normal cell division
Discovery of the gene targets involved in acute leukemia in humans