The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center kicked off Brain Tumor Awareness Month (May) on April 30 with their first full-scale Angels Among Us event since the pandemic began.
Clinical providers, researchers, staff & health leaders came together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center (now DCI).
Team DCI, captained by doctors Karen Johnson(Division Chief of Breast Imaging) and Vijay Paryani (Breast Oncology), laces up for Saturday's Race for the Cure.
The V Foundation Victory Ride to Cure Cancer returns 4.21 to 5.21 (virtual) and May 21 in person with cycling on greenways & roads and on-site spin classes.
DCI COEE hosts a virtual event in Spanish on "The Importance of Screening for Colon Cancer" in partnership with LATIN-19 and Durham County Public HealthDept.
Watch "Preventing Stomach & Colon Cancers" presented by The Gut Patrol, The Connection Place, Inc., the North Carolina Society of Gastroenterology, & DCI COEE doctors.
“This is really the thing we look forward to all year and we weren’t going to let the pandemic get in the way this year,” said DCI exec. director Michael Kastan, MD, PhD.
Watch this COEE Community Conversation to learn ways to keep the lungs healthy through tobacco cessation: "Helping You or Your Loved Ones Kick Tobacco, One Day at a Time."
In October, the DCI Office of Health Equity & the Mexican Consulate in Raleigh brought awareness to breast, uterine, and cervical cancer detection and prevention.
Beginning on Nov. 15, friends, colleagues and family members of staff & faculty who died in 2021 will have multiple public opportunities at Duke and virtually to remember & celebrate them.
Stacia Smart rolled in to Duke Medicine Circle on Oct. 8 to welcoming cheers. She had just cycled 1,100-mile in memory of her boyfriend Owen Strong who passed away from glioblastoma in Jan. 2020.
"What's Best For Breasts? A Conversation with Duke Clinicians" was held online on Oct. 2. Topics included imaging, genetic testing, breast cancer risk assessment & prevention.
Join Team DCI and "Light the Night" Oct. 21 to support blood cancer awareness and research. The virtual program includes a ceremony, lantern raising, social celebration & fireworks.
DCI medical oncologists Angeles Alvarez Secord, MD, MHSc, and Rafael Gonzalez, MD, & genetics counselor Maggie Frazier, MS, CGC discussed ovarian cancer, in this DCI OHE event for the community.
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Duke Women's Cancer Care Raleigh to host community event with mammograms and activities centered on women's health, Oct. 9.
The event, which also featured talks from Henrietta Lacks’ great-granddaughter and a bioethics leader at Tuskegee University, drew more than 750 viewers worldwide.
The V Foundation's Victory Ride to Cure Cancer was back as a LIVE cycling event and celebration, Aug. 28. Team DCI "virtual" and in-person riders raised more than $20K.
Lung cancer advocates came together Aug. 1 to build, paint and decorate ribbons for lung cancer awareness. Next to keep hope alive at LUNGe Forward, Sept. 18.
DCI's Office of Health Equity hosted a virtual event on the importance of primary care in early cancer detection on July 20, 2021. Watch the recording.
"Virtual Survivorship Day 2021" includes a variety of LIVE events held in a virtual format: Tai Chi, yoga, cooking, memory-making, emotional wellness & more.
The Duke Cardio-Oncology program hosts a webinar on identifying and managing cardio-toxicities in patients undergoing cancer treatment. CE is available.
The DCI Office of Health Equity hosted a clinical trials primer for the community led by Angelo Moore, PhD, RN, in partnership with the Durham Men's Health Council. (5.18)
This OHE-hosted talk featured director of the Patierno/George/Freedman Lab Jennifer Freedman, PhD, and postdocs Tyler Allen, PhD, and Sean Piwarski, PhD.
At a community forum hosted by the DCI Office of Health Equity, surgical oncologists Michael Stang, MD, and Trinitia Cannon, MD, talk thyroid cancer & HPV-associated cancers.