UA Cancer Center Teams up with Tucson Jewish Community Center to Deliver Four-part Cancer Education Series

The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) is partnering with the Tucson Jewish Community Center (the Tucson J) to deliver a four-part educational series on cancer beginning in early February. The series, which is free and open to the public, will be delivered by clinical and faculty members of the UACC and will focus on trends in research and clinical care involving such topics as breast cancer, head and neck cancer, translational science, and diet. The lectures are free and open to the public and are held at the Tucson J at 6:30 p.m.

Bear Down. Beat Cancer.

Cancer directly impacts 1 out of every 3 people. Science and technology has transformed the fight against cancer since then-President Richard Nixon called for a War on Cancer by signing the National Cancer Act of 1971. Now there is a renewed effort to push the boundaries of medicine in a search for a cure with President Obama’s Cancer Moonshot. From precision medicine, to novel drug development, to the new frontiers of immunology, researchers and clinicians from the University of Arizona Cancer Center will discuss in a free, four-part series the state of cancer research and its impact on the newest and most promising cancer fighting treatments moving into the clinic. The first Thursday of each month, February to May. All lectures are at 6:30 p.m.:

February 2 – From Bench to Bedside: Translating Cancer Research into Clinical Patient Care

Andrew S. Kraft, MD

Sydney E. Salmon Endowed Chair

Director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center

Associate Vice President for Oncology Programs for the University of Arizona Health Sciences

Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research in the College of Medicine

March 2 – Head and Neck Cancer: The Emerging Epidemic

Julie Bauman, MD, MPH

Associate Director, Translational Research

University of Arizona Cancer Center

April 6 – Diet and Cancer: What’s a person to Eat?

Cyndi Thomson, PhD, RD

Associate Director, Cancer Prevention and Control

University of Arizona Cancer Center

May 4 – Breast Cancer Research and Patient Care

Joyce Schroeder, PhD

Head of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Inititative

Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology

University of Arizona Cancer Center