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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.

Another CRUSH Colorectal Cancer 5K event is in the books. The popular local event, hosted by the Duke Cancer Institute GI Oncology multidisciplinary program, featured a run/walk through the historic Watts Hospital-Hillandale neighborhood.

The 2023 Gail Parkins Memorial Ovarian Cancer Walk & 5K marked its 21st year raising awareness, paying tribute to those touched by ovarian cancer, and supporting ovarian cancer research at DCI.

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.

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.

The DCI COEE program hosted the inaugural MaryAnn Black Distinguished Health Equity Lecture in honor of the late MaryAnn Black, MSW, LCSW, "for her extraordinary leadership, enduring impact, and powerful advocacy." The event will be annual.

(Clinical Practice Today is a publication targeted at Duke Health Referring Physicians)

Learn how the Precision Cancer Medicine Initiative, run jointly by DCI and the Duke Dept. of Pathology, is advancing research, extending lives, and breaking down barriers to access.

The Duke BioRepository & Precision Pathology Center grew, thrived, and progressively built a national reputation. “Its success represents the evolution and extension of the Department of Pathology’s support and commitment to cancer research."

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

The 2022 Gail Parkins Memorial Ovarian Cancer Walk & 5K Run is gearing up for another banner year. Presented by WTVD-Channel 11, this year's event is themed "20 years of Memories, 20 years of Progress."

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.

The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center celebrated its 85-year anniversary and held its first full-scale "Angels Among Us 5K and Walk of Hope" event since the COVID-19 pandemic began two years ago.

Deputy Director of Duke Cancer Institute Steven Patierno, PhD, is energized by his decades-long work in cancer control and cancer health disparities.