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Aug 26, 2024
Internationally recognized cancer expert joins UCI Health as cancer center deputy director
Internationally recognized cancer expert Dr. Miguel A. Villalona-Calero has joined the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center as its deputy director and chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology at the UC Irvine School of Medicine.
Aug 19, 2024
CBCRP-funded study shows Manuka honey reduced tumor growth in animal models
UCLA researchers found that Manuka honey significantly reduced tumor growth in mice with ER-positive breast cancer cells without affecting normal breast cells or causing major side effects.
Aug 12, 2024 | Orange County Business Journal
UCI Health Opens Second Cancer Center in OC
The second phase of the University of California, Irvine’s $1.3 billion medical complex is complete with the opening of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care building. The five-story, 225,000-square-foot building triples the available space of the flagship center in Orange, which is one of 57 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the nation, officials said.
Aug 07, 2024 | Healthline
Aspirin no substitute for healthy lifestyle to prevent colon cancer, says UCI Health surgeon
A new study has found that the regular use of aspirin could lower colorectal cancer risk, particularly among individuals with lifestyle risk factors such as smoking or obesity. UCI Health colorectal surgeon Dr. Jason A. Zell, who was not involved with the study, tells Healthline that the findings are unlikely to change the recommendations of the United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF).
Aug 05, 2024 | OC Business Journal
UCI Develops Questionnaire for Different Languages
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine have developed and electronic assessment platform that aims to make language less of a barrier in healthcare.
Aug 02, 2024 | UCI News
Decreasing Asian American health disparities
In a postpandemic world in which public health is a prime concern, societal pressures still prevent many Asian American people from prioritizing their health. Sunmin Lee, a professor of medicine at UC Irvine, is a social epidemiologist focusing particularly on health disparities faced by the Asian American population.
Jul 29, 2024 | UCI School of Medicine
UC Irvine Researchers identify key enzyme contributing to cancer health disparities in Latin American population
Researchers from the UC Irvine School of Medicine’s Pannunzio Lab have discovered that an enzyme expressed in B cells is a significant factor driving cancer health disparities within the Latin American population.
Jul 29, 2024 | UCI Health
Drummer beats back kidney cancer in clinical trial
When Glenn Marquez came to the United States from his native Philippines in 2022, he had been diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer. Marquez sought care rom Dr. Arash Rezazadeh Kalebasty, a medical oncologist from UCI Health CFCCC. Marquez enrolled in a clinical trial shortly after which changed the course of his future.
Jul 22, 2024 | UCI Health
Community open house celebrates new facilities at UCI Health ― Irvine
UCI Health hosted a vibrant open house on July 20 to celebrate the opening of the Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care and the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the new UCI Health – Irvine complex.
Jul 22, 2024 | UCI News
An Anticancer Camera?
At the forefront of a movement to rewrite oral and oropharyngeal cancer outcomes, Dr. Petra Wilder-Smith has spent the last two decades working on devices for early detection. Now, in collaboration with Rongguang Liang at the University of Arizona’s Wyant College of Optical Sciences, the director of dentistry at UC Irvine’s Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic and a professor of medicine has developed a commercial intraoral camera with the ability to screen for cancer.