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  • Highlights in Cancer Research and Care at UNMC
  • Fee: $0.00
    Course Number: H&W083Z
    Dates: 6/2/2025 - 7/7/2025
    Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
    Days: M
    Sessions: 6
    Building: ONLINE
    Room: ZOOM
    Instructor: Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, Rachael Schmidt, Christopher D'Angelo, Vijaya Bhatt, Michael (Tony) Hollingsworth, Jered Garrison, Ray Bergan, Hamid Band
    Facilitator: David Dyke
    Seats Left: 61

    What’s new in cancer research and care right here in Nebraska? Learn how the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is working with public health leaders throughout the state to reduce cancer incidence. Obtain updates about screening strategies that can detect cancer early and how survivors can deal successfully with post-cancer treatment challenges. Find out how UNMC researchers are developing new ways to detect pancreatic cancers and to target gastrointestinal tumor cells while limiting side effects. Explore new multidisciplinary care strategies specifically designed for older adults who have cancer. Surprising discoveries will be revealed about how bacteria that live in our intestines influence both the onset of cancer and the effectiveness of treatments for it. Innovative findings about prostate cancer will be covered. Capping off the course, you will hear how foundational cancer research can lead the way toward the treatments of tomorrow.

    Click here Course Syllabus to learn what will be discussed at each of these six amazing class sessions:

    Free and Open to the Public.
 

  • Highlights in Cancer Research and Care at UNMC
  • Fee: $0.00
    Course Number: H&W083O
    Dates: 6/2/2025 - 7/7/2025
    Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
    Days: M
    Sessions: 6
    Building: UNMC Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
    Room: 0.12.103
    Instructor: Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, Rachael Schmidt, Christopher D'Angelo, Vijaya Bhatt, Michael (Tony) Hollingsworth, Jered Garrison, Ray Bergan, Hamid Band
    Facilitator: David Dyke
    Seats Left: 41

    What’s new in cancer research and care right here in Nebraska? Learn how the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is working with public health leaders throughout the state to reduce cancer incidence. Obtain updates about screening strategies that can detect cancer early and how survivors can deal successfully with post-cancer treatment challenges. Find out how UNMC researchers are developing new ways to detect pancreatic cancers and to target gastrointestinal tumor cells while limiting side effects. Explore new multidisciplinary care strategies specifically designed for older adults who have cancer. Surprising discoveries will be revealed about how bacteria that live in our intestines influence both the onset of cancer and the effectiveness of treatments for it. Innovative findings about prostate cancer will be covered. Capping off the course, you will hear how foundational cancer research can lead the way toward the treatments of tomorrow.

    Click here Course Syllabus to learn what will be discussed at each of these six amazing class sessions:

    Free and Open to the Public. Parking is free in the visitors’ parking lot; valet parking is also available at the ground floor door.
 

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