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A group of 12 people pose at a park in front of a Duke Cancer Institute tent
In August 2023, a team of volunteers led by Trinitia Cannon, MD (third from left), Leda Scearce, CCC-SLP, MM, MS, and Dina Abouelella, MPH, which also included Tammara Watts, MD, PhD (center) and Katharine Ciarrocca, DMD, MSEd, partnered with North Raleigh International Baptist Church and Duke Raleigh Hospital to offer head and neck cancer screenings. Dozens of families from the Cedar Creek Apartment Complex community came out for the free screenings, education, and games, and Duke Raleigh Hospital donated backpacks full of school supplies.
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building with triangle roof and sign reading "Gibson Cancer Center, Southeastern Health"
When Eleanor Scott Bell needed cancer care her doctor sent her to see Duke Cancer Network doctors at Gibson Cancer Center in Lumberton, close to where she grew up as a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, "People of the Dark Water."
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