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Construction begins on Alabama's first proton therapy facility, bringing the most most advanced form of cancer-killing radiation to UAB in 2020.
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A new eight-week FreshStart! program beginning Feb. 1 will help cancer survivors make healthy lifestyle changes.
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UAB and Children’s expand non-clinical patient navigation to children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.
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Proceeds from the annual ArtBLINK Gala support high-priority and life-saving research.
Of the 15 million people living with cancer in the United States in 2016, 62 percent were 65 years or older.
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Nearly one in three breast cancer survivors suffers from poor sleep, which can lead to greater mortality.
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UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Patient Care Connect Program received a distinguished Innovator Award from the Association of Community Cancer Centers for providing stellar cancer care with cost savings.
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A UAB researcher has received a 2017 Susan G. Komen grant to investigate combination drug therapies for HER2-positive breast cancer.
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The research team will measure physical-based outcomes as well as emotional-based outcomes from the therapy.
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UAB is the first in the country to use novel HyperArc High-Definition Radiotherapy on brain cancer patients.
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Cancer is a disease with a thousand faces. Oncologists like Eddy Yang have to recognize which one they’re seeing with each new patient. Yang leads a pioneering new kind of cancer program at UAB: the Molecular Tumor Board.
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In two new studies, a UAB oncologist explores questions of choice and cost in metastatic breast cancer.
Surgeon at UAB believes in making breast cancer awareness an issue year-round to help save lives through early detection. 
Fouad has worked to establish the validity of health disparities as a national scientific research priority.
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This grant will fully support Kendra Royston’s research work within the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology throughout the spring of 2018.
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Researchers use compounds found in a combination plant-based diet to successfully prevent and treat ER-negative breast cancer in mice.
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Chad Thomas Hagwood, Edward E. Partridge, Catherine Danielou, Michelle Cardel and Raymond Thompson were bestowed the awards by the NAS for their personal, academic and professional achievements, service to the community, and philanthropy.
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A blue-light cystoscopy may detect certain bladder cancer tumors more than the use of standard white-light diagnostic testing.
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Hadiyah-Nicole Green, UAB alumna, will be recognized by GE in a Grand Central Station display for research in cancer treatment.
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Alina Franke registered to donate her bone marrow in Hamburg, Germany, in 2009. She wound up being the one person in 24 million around the world on the Be The Match registry to be the perfect match that Jimmy Roberson needed.
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