@KUCancerCenter Twitter Chats

The University of Kansas Cancer Center hosts Twitter chats to create cancer awareness, particularly when it comes to prevention, screening, symptoms, risk factors and research. We along with other research institutions, advocacy groups, patients, health care professionals and more share valuable knowledge about a specific cancer topic in an hour-long chat on Twitter.

Past Twitter Chats

World No Tobacco Day Twitter Chat

 

The University of Kansas Cancer Center teamed up with Children's Mercy Hospital to co-host a Twitter chat about smoking cessation on the World Health Organization's World No Tobacco Day, May 31, 2017. The main focus: an opt-out versus opt-in approach to tobacco cessation counseling and treatment.

HPV Twitter Chat raises questions, provides answers

  

The University of Kansas Cancer Center teamed up with Children’s Mercy Hospital to co-host a Twitter chat about human papillomavirus (HPV), HPV-associated cancers and cancer prevention through vaccination on June 21, 2016.

Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Twitter Chat

 

Dr. Andrew Godwin and Dr. Jeremy Chien, researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center, co-hosted a Twitter chat with gynecological oncologist Dr. Andrea Jewell about ovarian cancer on September 29, 2015.

Breast Cancer Survivorship Twitter Chat

 

The University of Kansas Cancer Center co-hosted a Twitter chat about breast cancer survivorship with Susan G. Komen Greater Kansas City on April 2, 2015.

Colon Cancer Awareness Twitter Chat

 

The University of Kansas Cancer Center hosted its first Twitter Chat about colorectal cancer prevention, screening and research on November 10, 2014.