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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.

On Tuesday, Oct. 17, DCI's Valarie Worthy, MSN, RN, and Steven Patierno, PhD, will participate in the first of a series of in-person meetings of the President’s Cancer Panel in New Orleans.

The White House Cancer Moonshot program announced its support for and commitment to several new projects to "end cancer as we know it," including a new initiative led by TOUCH, the Black Breast Cancer Alliance (co-founded by Valarie Worthy, RN).

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.

DCI has announced the launch of a new Cancer Health Disparities & Equity lecture series. The series is a collaboration between DCI’s Disparities SPORE and DCI’s Community Outreach, Engagement, and Equity Program.

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.

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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."

The official adaptation of "Just ASK: Increasing Diversity in Clinical Research Participation" — a course developed and piloted at DCI five years ago by Nadine Barrett, PhD — has rolled out nationally and is now trademarked by ASCO.

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!

Steve Patierno, PhD, was a co-developer of the AACR Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2022 and participated in a congressional briefing. Nadine Barrett, PhD, co-wrote an ASCO-ACCC statement on increasing racial & ethnic diversity in clinical trials.