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What will AORTIC’S first in-person best of #ASCO Africa cover? Listen to Shikha Jain MD, FACP and University of Illinois Cancer Center’s Abiola Ibraheem, MD, discuss how physicians will address #healthcaredisparities and implementing #realtimesolutions. Listen now: healio.com/news/hematolog…

Join us as we celebrate cancer survivorship superheroes as part of #NationalCancerSurvivorshipMonth on June 21, from 10 a.m. – Noon! Come dressed in your favorite superhero attire! This celebration will feature food, raffles and more! Register here: bit.ly/4jrKcSv

In partnership with Common Sense Oncology, we invite you to a pre-ASCO Symposium on Friday, May 30 from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. at UIC Student Center West Thomson Center Rooms! Cancer Center member Abiola Ibraheem will be a speaker. #ASCO25 #CancerResearch Register here: bit.ly/43gHSZH

Tune in Sunday, June 1 at 10 a.m. to WVON 1690AM’s "Dr. in the House with Dr. Terry Mason"! Guests Karriem Watson, DHSc, and Mahari Kelly, APRN-CNP, will discuss men’s health, cancer screenings and prevention. June is #MensHealthMonth! Listen here: bit.ly/4kzB7rA

Research from Cancer Center members, trainees, co-authors and others University of Illinois Chicago, including regional campuses in Rockford and Peoria, will be featured at the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago. #ASCO25 View the list of abstracts here: bit.ly/4ccr4WF

And so it begins! 🥳 The 1st award is the Health Equity Award, given in partnership with University of Illinois Cancer Center. The award goes to Ana I. Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSc, FASCO! 👏 Dr. Velázquez Mañana shines a spotlight on inequities in the oncology field while advocating for underserved patients with cancer.

Great GU poster session #ASCO25 📍ctDNA in mUC (n=36) on EV: 92% were (+) Kevin Reyes Vadim Koshkin MD 📍real-world EV toxicities & d/c +survival @ronmamanti 📍KIM-1 in mRCC Mark Machaalani Toni Choueiri, MD Wenxin (Vincent) Xu 📍our University of Illinois Cancer Center team on HER3 overexpression in PCa

A $2M gift from a University of Illinois Chicago alum will help build the Drug Discovery and Cancer Research Pavilion. Here, UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy, Chemistry at UIC, UICentre for Drug Discovery and the Cancer Center will unite to develop better, more equitable disease treatments. #CancerResearch bit.ly/4kgGmgd

#ASCO25 is winding down, but you can still check out the #research from our Cancer Center members, trainees, co-authors and others featured at the Annual Meeting.

University of Illinois Cancer Center clinician-scientist Carlos Murga-Zamalloa, MD, was awarded the 2025 Ramzi S. Cotran Young Investigator Award by United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). Read more here: bit.ly/4jpVVkm

You can still listen to WVON 1690AM's “Dr. in the House with Dr. Terry Mason” when his guests were Karriem Watson, DHSc, MS, MPH and Mahari Kelly, APRN-CNP, discussing #MensHealthMonth, cancer screenings and prevention. Listen to the segment here: bit.ly/4kzB7rA

Summer #CancerResearch programs kick off starting next week at the Cancer Center on the University of Illinois Chicago campus. We are excited to welcome 54 students and chronicle their journeys over the coming months. Read more here: bit.ly/4jv7fMh

Register now for our 2025 Summer CME Series! The series will be held June 11, June 18 and June 25. Each session day has a different cancer focus. All sessions will be held at mHUB, located at 1623 W. Fulton Street in Chicago. Registration + more info: bit.ly/4kqRCGs

Join the University of Illinois Cancer Center for its second annual 5K walk and run on September 20! Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m. #5KWalk #5KRun #Fundraiser Register here: bit.ly/3HeGj5Z

University of Illinois Cancer Center members are the senior and first authors of a new study on a discovery that may help #cancersurvivors regain their muscle strength, which could contribute to better outcomes for these patients. Read more here: go.nature.com/3T72jSQ

The University of Illinois Cancer Center’s three-part 2025 Summer CME Series starts today, and there is still time to register. Subsequent sessions will be held on June 18 and June 25. #CancerResearch More info + registration here: bit.ly/4kqRCGs

We have two segments in June during “Cafecito con Vicky” on MIDWAY BROADCASTING, 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.” bit.ly/45Nu6iG

Summer #cancerresearch programs at the University of Illinois Cancer Center kicked off with 11 undergraduate students starting their American Cancer Society (ACS) Cancer Research Internship Program on the University of Illinois Chicago campus. Read more here: bit.ly/4jv7fMh

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.

Cancer Center members and other University of Illinois Chicago researchers are co-authors of work featured in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers designed a top-of-the-line relay process in the body’s immune system to challenge cancer. Read the full story here: bit.ly/4mWJbVh