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WVON Dr. in the House with Dr. Terry Mason with Guest Chinwe Ewenighi-Amankwah, PhD
Listen live Sunday, July 7, at 10 a.m. (CT) when WVON’s “Dr. in the House with Dr. Terry Mason” features cancer researcher Chinwe Ewenighi-Amankwah, PhD, who will discuss improving outcomes in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) for Black patients. TNBC is a highly aggressive and metastatic subtype of breast cancer that causes high mortality in Black Americans. She is leading a research project to evaluate a predictive and prognostic indicator to improve outcomes in Black patients with TNBC. She has been awarded a pilot grant by the Illinois Cancer Health Equity Research (I-CHER) Center at the University of Illinois Cancer Center and she is part of the lab of Cancer Center Director Jan Kitajewski, PhD.