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April 17, 2025

Meet Pamela Thomas-Hall

Pamela Thomas-Hall was a stickler for her annual checkups and doctor appointments until the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything. Every year, on her birthday, she would get a complete checkup as…

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Image promoting free oral cancer screenings in April.
April 15, 2025

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Free Oral Cancer Screenings

Free oral cancer screenings continue this Thursday and Friday, resulting from a partnership between the University of Illinois Cancer Center, UI Health Mile Square Health Center and the UIC College…

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April 15, 2025

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Awardees: 2025 ACS IRG Pilots

Four pilot projects were awarded $50,000 each for one year by the University of Illinois Cancer Center through its American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS IRG) to provide seed…

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April 11, 2025

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Cyanobacteria Help Cancer Research

One of the largest repositories in the United States of North American freshwater cyanobacteria, conventionally known as pond scum, is in the lab of University of Illinois Cancer Center member…

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Read the publication by Douglas Thomas, and more, on nitric oxide and DNA methylation in Nature Communications.
April 11, 2025

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UIC Today Features Thomas Lab

University of Illinois Cancer Center member Douglas Thomas, PhD, was featured in UIC Today for research published in Nature Communications. The study, “Nitric Oxide Inhibits Ten-Eleven Translocation DNA Demethylases to Regulate…

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Image features UI Health Surgeon Gerald Gantt, MD, on TV talking about colorectal cancer awareness.
April 7, 2025

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UI Health Gantt on Colorectal Cancer

UI Health surgeon Gerald Gantt, Jr., who specializes in the treatment of colon and rectal cancers, was featured on radio and TV shows in Chicago and Wisconsin during Colorectal Cancer…

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Join us on Sunday at 10 a.m. for WVON’s Dr. in the House featuring guests Karriem Watson and Sodabeh Etminan.
April 7, 2025

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WVON: National Minority Health Month

You can still listen to WVON’s “Dr. in the House with Dr. Terry Mason” when his guests were UI Health Mile Square Health Center Executive Director Karriem Watson, DHSc, MS, MPH, and Sodabeh…

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Image of UI Health breast surgeon Raquel Gonzalez Heredia, MD, PhD
April 4, 2025

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WRLL: April 23 Cancer Center

Listen live on April 23 at 11 a.m. when UI Health breast surgeon Raquel Gonzalez Heredia, MD, PhD, who specializes in breast cancer, is the featured guest on the University…

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