Mar 29, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Patricia Wolf and H. Rex Gaskins. Urbana, Ill. – Colorectal cancer is expected to claim more than 52,000 American lives in 2022, and if this year is like most others, Black Americans will bear the brunt of the disease. To understand the disparity in context,...
Jan 25, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Rohit Bhargava. Urbana, Ill. – The Fighting Illini are also fighting cancer by supporting and promoting awareness of the Cancer Center at Illinois, a research unit and a community of experts in cancer biology and technology that seeks to address gaps in...
Dec 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Image of Ashlie Santaliz Casiano. Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is excited to announce the recipient of the Fall 2021 Kristine Neuhoff Twyman Breast Cancer Scholarship. Ashlie Santaliz Casiano, graduate student in the Division of Nutritional...
Jul 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, member of the Cancer Center at Illinois and Cancer Research Advocacy Group, attributes her passion for cancer research to the serendipity in the science. Madak-Erdogan’s interest in researching cancer began during high-school, when the first...
Jan 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Interview originally from Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute. CCIL Member Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, assistant professor of food and science and human nutrition, is the leader of the Women’s Health and Nutrition Lab, where she is currently focusing on...
Jun 11, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Brandi Patrice Smith (left). A new review finds that lower rates of survival for African-American women with breast cancer are linked to segregation, poverty and lack of access to healthcare facilities. Thousands of studies on breast cancer have looked at...
May 9, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Dr. Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. Dr. Zeynep Madak-Erdogan discussed the findings of her NCSA faculty fellowship project on May 9. Her work looked at the issue of cancer health disparities among African American using several scales simultaneously to understand the...
