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The University of Kansas Cancer Center recently announced the recipients of its inaugural 2016 Cancer Center Director's Awards.
Whether you're watching a Facebook Live interview or engaging with others dealing with cancer via Twitter, social media provides education and awareness of cancer prevention, groundbreaking research and proven cancer treatments.
Lymphedema is a condition that can happen when breast cancer surgery includes removal of lymph nodes, or through other breast cancer treatment like radiation. The University of Kansas Cancer Center is the only facility in the area, and one of a few in the country, focused not only on lymphedema treatment but also on surveillance.
The University of Kansas Cancer Center is bringing scientists and patients, already kindred spirits in a cause, even closer together.
The Pediatric Hematology/Oncology program treats approximately 35 children, adolescents and young adults each year who have a wide range of cancers.
Researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center are developing cutting-edge "lab-on-a-chip" tests that may one day detect ovarian cancer much earlier – with just drops of a patient's blood.
Ovarian cancer is very difficult to detect in its early stages as symptoms are often dismissed or misdiagnosed. Ovarian cancer researcher Rebecca Wates, Ph.D., is all too familiar with how the symptoms can be overlooked for too long.
Obesity is associated with at least eight types of cancer and tends to be more prevalent in rural communities. Christie Befort, Ph.D., co-leader of the Cancer Control and Population Health Research Program, is studying different approaches to tackle obesity in rural areas.
Leaders from The University of Kansas Cancer Center joined about a dozen Kansas legislators, patients and others on July 21 to celebrate a new state law forbidding minors from using commercial tanning beds.
The University of Kansas Cancer Center and Children's Mercy teamed up to host a Twitter chat about HPV and the importance of the vaccine to help prevent cancer. The #HPVchat was moderated by medical professionals on Tuesday, June 21 from 1-2 p.m.
The University of Kansas Cancer Center and Children's Mercy are teaming up to host a Twitter chat about HPV and the importance of the vaccine to help prevent cancer. The #HPVchat will be moderated by eight medical professionals, from 1-2 p.m. on Tuesday, June 21.
Joseph McGuirk, DO, Medical Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant program at The University of Kansas Cancer Center, will be formally invested this evening as the Schutte/Peas Professorship of Hematology/Oncology.
Prostate cancer is not a difficult cancer to treat if it's found before it spreads, but – like many cancers - once it metastasizes throughout the body, the chances of survival greatly lessen.
Obesity is becoming a larger factor in the risk for cancer with the National Cancer Institute linking at least eight types of cancer to being overweight or obese.
Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is one of the most common inherited diseases—a parent with PKD has a 50 percent chance of passing the disease on to their child.