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Cancer Center Blog

Cancer Outreach

'I'll never quit': Retired nurse continues health care calling as Community Health Advisor
A constant, guiding force: Community Health Advisors remain pivotal asset to cancer awareness, education, screening
A life’s work: Scarinci continues mission to eradicate cervical cancer, serve communities worldwide
Building bridges: Community Advisory Board members help extend cancer education, outreach efforts to Latino, Latina, Latinx communities
Calm in the storm: Breast cancer survivor, health advocate brings words of serenity, motivation to airwaves
Faith in action: Minister leads effort to provide stable food source, encouragement during pandemic
From the SEC to UAB: Conway brings gridiron logistics, zeal to cancer care, patient advocacy
Keeping it moving: DIAL participant reaches milestone, sets example on her path to better health
Laying the foundation: Fouad recalls earliest days of Office of Community Outreach & Engagement
Learning and engaging virtually: York Housing Authority leaders join more than 100 others for UAB breast cancer education forum
Letter from Monica Baskin: COE using new outreach strategies in the wake of COVID-19
Man to man: Community Advisory Board members work to remove stigma in men’s health, prostate cancer awareness
Newly trained CHAs celebrate weeks of training – from a distance
O’Neal Cancer Center partners with Alabama churches to promote better health on No Menthol Sunday
Sharing, surviving, thriving: Community health leaders provide education, examples of hope in face of breast cancer
Sleckman, Baskin discuss importance of cancer care
Stitching for a cause: Community health advisors lend skills to aid communities during health crisis
Tara Bowman: Empowered by loss, committed to cancer education
The Office of Community Outreach & Engagement at 25: A chat with the pioneers

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