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The Cancer Center held its annual Community Day for @thisisUIC summer #cancerresearch students—an energizing mix of inspiring talks and outdoor fun, offering a refreshing break from their research.

Join us, on Thursday, July 17, 2025, from 5 - 7:30 p.m. at @QuarryEvent, to learn more about how #healthyeating can help to prevent cancer. Register here:

Cancer Center members Gye Young Park, MD, and Kevin Haas, MD, received our 2025 Pilot Project Award! Their $50K award will help to develop biomarkers to boost EBUS/TBNA accuracy in detecting #lungcancer spread. Read more here:

All summer cancer research programs are underway at the University of Illinois Cancer Center on the @thisisUIC campus, with the start of a program for four medical students now in progress. #CancerResearch. Read about each program here:

Missed it? You can still catch the Cancer Center's segments on “Cafecito con Vicky," on WRLL 1450 AM – Spanish radio, Chicago! . ☕️ Ep 1: Cancer’s impact on the Latino community.☕️ Ep 2: Focus on #ColorectalCancer. #CancerAwareness #LatinoHealth.

Join the University of Illinois Cancer Center for its second annual 5K walk and run on September 20! . All proceeds from the event benefit the Cancer Center. Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m. #5KWalk #5KRun #RunnerLife #Fundraiser. Register here:

Tune in July 6 at 10 a.m. to @WVON1690's "Dr. in the House with Dr. Terry Mason.". Topic: Vax Facts—Vaccines & #CervicalCancerPrevention. Guests: Ian Jasenof, MD, FACOG, MHA, CPE, and Christina Wells, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAFP, DipABLM. Listen Live Here:

The Best of ASCO Africa Conference, was held June 27-28 in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. Cancer Center member Abiola Ibraheem, MD, the North American Vice President for @AORTIC_AFRICA, helped organize the event. #AORTIC2025 #CancerCare. More here:

The new Spatial and Genome Technologies Core launched as part of the UIC Research Resources Center. The core offers advanced spatial and single-cell technologies, including the Chromium, Visium and Xenium platforms from @10xGenomics. Read more here:

University of Illinois Cancer Center member Jean Reading, PhD, is the corresponding author of a study funded by the @theNCI and published in the @AACR journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. #BreastCancer #CancerResearch. Read more here:

Join us for #BreastCancer Screening Day on July 9, co-hosted by the University of Illinois Cancer Center and the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program. You can call 312-610-0463 or use the link below to register. Register here:

Cancer survivors, their families and friends, and community organizations joined the us to celebrate “Survivorship Superheroes” during an annual Surviving and Thriving event to mark #NationalCancerSurvivorsMonth in June. Read more here:

Cancer Center’s Vivian Pan, MS, CGC, and Maya Brouette are amoung authors of an article published in the Journal of Genetic Counseling, that examined Medicaid programs for genetic counselors enrolled as providers. #GeneticCounseling. More here:

University of Illinois Cancer Center member Takeshi Shimamura, PhD, studies how some cancers can become resistant to treatment, including a stubborn form of #lungcancer that learns to resist some FDA-approved drugs. #CancerResearch. Read more here:

Researchers at the @thisisUIC successfully treated a common type of #colorectalcancer tumor with a cholesterol inhibitor drug, demonstrating a promising treatment for the disease in animal experiments. More here:

Join us, Saturday at 10 a.m. @UICnursing (845 S. Damen Ave. 3rd Floor Chicago, IL 60612), as we celebrate cancer survivorship superheroes as part of #NationalCancerSurvivorshipMonth!. This celebration will feature food, raffles and more!. Register here:

Cancer Center members and other @thisisUIC researchers are co-authors of work featured in the journal @NatureComms. The researchers designed a top-of-the-line relay process in the body’s immune system to challenge cancer. Read the full story here:

Yolanda Johnson was taking a shower when she felt and saw something odd. She got out of the shower and found a lump on her breast. She called her primary doctor to schedule a mammogram. She was diagnosed with 2B triple-negative #breastcancer in May 2021. Check out her story.

Summer #cancerresearch programs at the University of Illinois Cancer Center kicked off with 11 undergraduate students starting their @AmericanCancer (ACS) Cancer Research Internship Program on the @thisisUIC campus. Read more here:

We have two segments in June during “Cafecito con Vicky” on @WRLL1450, at 11 a.m., a Spanish-language radio station in Chicago. Today, Cancer Center Visiting Research Associate Carolina Bujanda, will discuss “The Impact of Cancer on the Latino Community.”.