The University of Hawai'i Cancer Center is saving lives in Hawai‘i and the Pacific. We are inspiring hope by working to erase health disparities and end cancer.
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Did you know?: If you are of Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander or Asian ancestry, you're at increased risk for breast cancer. Talk to your doctor and get your annual mammogram. Screenings are crucial for early detection of cancer and its treatment.
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Honolulu resident Dana Senaha says a clinical trial of daraxonrasib, the new drug for advanced pancreatic cancer, bought her family 10 bonus months with her beloved husband, Bobby.
Listen to Bobby and Dana’s story in the link below.
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The UH Cancer Center has faculty among the five professionals named Hawaii Healthcare Heroes by the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, including Dr. Shane Morita, who is honored for his work in treating patient Caroline Huff at The Queen’s Medical Center.
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Missed our "Let's Move" workshop? We got you! A video of the full event — including simple, fun lessons in adapted hula, and strengthening and stretching exercises — is now available. Click on the link below:
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The UH Cancer Center has received a $2.5 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to expand cancer care, clinical research and specialist training across Hawaiʻi through the center's Ka ʻUmeke Lama initiative.
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A UH Cancer Center team has been awarded a $3 million National Cancer Institute R01 grant to investigate why early-stage breast cancer becomes invasive in some patients but not others. The five-year study focuses on Hawaiʻi’s unique population.
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Missed the signup for this? No problem! Walk-ins are welcome for this Saturday's FREE public workshop, "Let's Move! The Importance of Physical Activity in the Cancer Journey," 8-11 a.m. in our Sullivan Conference Center.
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Learn how exercise can help you during your cancer journey this Saturday, Oct. 17, at "Let's Move! The Important of Physical Activity in the Cancer Journey," a free public event hosted by the Susan C. Hirano Cancer CARE Community at the UH Cancer Center. go.hawaii.edu/D5R
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have identified a potential method for the early detection of lung cancer, before it is clinically identified.
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Our UH Cancer Center faculty held a full-day retreat last week, to grow understanding and collaboration among our investigators and programs, to accelerate our scientific discoveries that could lead to treatments that ease the cancer burden in Hawai‘i, the Pacific and beyond.
A groundbreaking new pancreatic cancer drug that will transform treatment for the deadly disease has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration — and it's the focus of our next "Quest for a Cure" free public-education event, on Wednesday, Sept. 16.go.hawaii.edu/Rig
Our center's Kū Ola mobile offers clinical services such as blood pressure checks, pulse oximetry, and spirometry readings. Mahalo to @kphawaii and @keolamamo for partnering on this initiative. Visit kuola.org to learn more about the program.
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Major news today in the cancer research field: A groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that experts predict will transform treatment for the notoriously deadly disease has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, NBC and other media report.
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Join us on Wednesday, September 16, from 5-7 p.m. at the UH Cancer Center, for "Quest for a Cure: New Breakthroughs in Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trials", a free public event focused on the latest pancreatic cancer research.
Registration & info: go.hawaii.edu/RX3
Learn about how CAR-T therapy for cancer works, and the therapy's growing availability in Hawai‘i, from Dr. Stephanie Si Lim, a researcher at our University of Hawaii Cancer Center on Hawaii News Now's "Healthier Hawaii" series, at the link below.
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Mahalo to Congressman Ed Case! He made time in his hectic schedule to receive an update on our University of Hawaii Cancer Center from center Director Dr. Naoto T. Ueno.
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Our University of Hawaii Cancer Center center was grateful and proud to welcome nearly 100 guests for "Toast to Hope," an event sponsored on Friday by the nonprofit Friends of the UH Cancer Center.
Mahalo nui to everyone who made this impactful event possible.
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The opening of our center's new Ho‘ōla Early Phase Clinical Research Center is a major milestone in the effort to provide local patients with more treatment options at home.
Read the full story in the Honolulu Star Advertiser :go.hawaii.edu/WJR
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More than 150 cancer patients/survivors/thrivers, caregivers and supporters gathered for “Healing Through Art,” presented July 18 at our UH Cancer Center by our Susan C. Hirano Cancer CARE Community program.
See Hawaii News Now's coverage here: go.hawaii.edu/RJY
TODAY is your LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER for "Healing Through Art" — our free public workshop presented 9-11 am, this Saturday by the Susan C. Hirano Cancer CARE Community, at the UH Cancer Center in Kaka‘ako. Walk-ins welcome.
Register:
go.hawaii.edu/FCi
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