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How one woman’s resilience through ovarian cancer treatment motivates others
Nov 20, 2020
A positive attitude and UAB’s gynecologic oncology team helped Debby Davis fight and endure life-threatening ovarian cancer.Read more... -
The Show Must Go On
Nov 18, 2020
After roughly four decades on the Advisory Board of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, George Wheelock III has seen the evolution of both the O’Neal Cancer Center and its annual ArtBLINK Gala. But this year, Wheelock will take on a new role as the Director’s Circle honoree for the Cancer Center’s first-ever virtual ArtBLINK Gala on Feb. 5, 2021.
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Photo by Mike Strawn
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A Quarter-Century of Service, and Counting
Nov 18, 2020
The Office of Community Outreach & Engagement at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center celebrates its silver anniversary this year after 25 years of providing health advocacy and cancer education to communities across the state and the South as a whole.
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Photos by Dustin Massey
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Institutional Research Core Program adds new cores; creates major growth in program
Nov 18, 2020
Read more...The Institutional Research Core Program (IRCP) recently selected 5 new cores to the institution-wide program.
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Scientists of Tomorrow: Zainab M. Shonibare
Nov 16, 2020
Three years after leaving her home country of Nigeria, UAB doctoral candidate Zainab M. Shonibare is now studying gynecologic cancers in the lab of O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center scientist Mythreye Karthikeyan, Ph.D., in the hopes of bringing the results of her research to cancer patients and survivors across the world.
Story by Curran Umphrey •
Photo submitted by Zainab M. Shonibare
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Newly trained CHAs celebrate weeks of training – from a distance
Nov 13, 2020
With certificates presented to smiling faces and poses for photos, several recent celebrations had the usual sights and sounds of a graduation – but with a twist.
Drive-through gradations and socially distanced activities did not lessen the excitement of health advocates after eight weeks of training on chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Newly trained Community Health Advisors from the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center received their credentials for a new program to improve the health of their communities in Alabama and Mississippi.
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From the SEC to UAB: Conway brings gridiron logistics, zeal to cancer care, patient advocacy
Nov 12, 2020
After her mother died from lung cancer in 2011, Laronica Conway left her position as assistant commissioner for championships and sports administration with the Southeastern Conference for a new role in patient care, where she now serves as a research study coordinator at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB.
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From the Archives: George Wheelock III
Nov 5, 2020
To celebrate 2021 ArtBLINK Gala Director's Circle honoree George Wheelock III and his almost 40 years on the Advisory Board, the O'Neal Cancer Center revisits this 2008 story about Wheelock from the archives with fresh eyes and annotated updates on Wheelock's life.
Story by Josh Till •
Cancer Center Magazine | Crossroads | Issue I | Spring 2008
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Published by the Office of Community Relations and Development, the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center Magazine highlights the center's physicians, scientists and patients.
