Charlotte-area resident Vickie Johnson, 72, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2018 after seeking care twice for abdominal pain.

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In January 2024, Duke University launched a celebration of its centennial — a historic opportunity to recognize Duke’s extraordinary past, communicate the impact of the present, and look toward Duke's potential impact going forward.

Connor McMahon was treated at a children’s hospital in Atlanta for leukemia, first at three years old, then eight years later when he was 12. When he relapsed again at 15, he traveled to Duke for a clinical trial of a first-of-its kind treatment.

MD & MDiv grad Monica Bodd thinks a lot about the patient experience and how to make it better — both through research and clinical practice. You can take the doctor out of Duke, but you can't take Duke out of the doctor.

The 2023 event topped 200 men screened/assessed for prostate, skin, lung, and colorectal cancer as well as diabetes and heart disease.

The DCI Community Outreach, Engagement, and Equity program, with site sponsors Lincoln Community Health Center and Duke Primary Care Croasdaile, presents its annual Men's Health Screening event.

Eleanor Scott Bell, 79, was born and raised in Lumberton, the capital of Robeson County in North Carolina. One of her earliest memories is of picking tobacco to supplement the family income. They were a family of nine with a large extended family.

The annual Women's Health Awareness Day Conference, sponsored by the NIH National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, will be held at the NCCU campus in Durham. This is the first time the event will be held in person since 2019.

In a lot of ways, Susan Blackwell (Crawford), MHS, PA-C’89, and the physician assistant profession have grown up together.

With DCI’s thoracic cancer team in Wake County, cancer experts will be closer to more patients' homes, expanding access.

DCI patients, clinicians, and supporters raised nearly $30K in the first in-person Strike Out Sarcoma 5K Run/Walk event since 2019.

Despite clinical guidelines advising against intensive or invasive end-of-life care, more than half of patients with terminal ovarian cancer will receive a least one aggressive intervention near the end of life.

The DCI COEE program and the National LGBT Cancer Network co-hosted a community conversation on "Equitable Spaces: Advancing Equity for LGBTQ+ Individuals in Cancer Care & Treatment." Watch now!

The DCI COEE program hosted a discussion on colorectal conditions that disproportionately affect the LGBTQ+ community — including colorectal cancer, perianal lesions and more. Watch now!

Seagen Inc. announced positive topline results last month of a pivotal phase 2 clinical trial (called MOUNTAINEER) of a novel drug combination for HER2-positive metastatic colorectal cancer. DCI led the trial and enrolled the trial's first patient.

Janel Keaton has been able to travel for weddings and grandbabies and enjoy mountain hikes and coastal cycling as a stage 4 breast cancer patient, thanks, in part, to the Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis who had her back all along the way.