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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.
UCI CFCCC Bulletin
July 24, 2024
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.
Jul 19, 2024 | UCI Health
UCI Health first in region to use new CT imaging technology
UCI Health is the first in Southern California to offer photon-counting CT scans, providing higher resolution in less time. The first scans took place on July 16 at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in Irvine.
Jul 18, 2024 | UCI Health
A 'dream come true' realized in Irvine
Dr. Michael J. Stamos, dean of the UCI School of Medicine, once envisioned opening a small cancer center on the UCI campus in Irvine. What has emerged, he says, is so much more: a $1.3 billion medical complex that rivals the best on the West Coast.
Jul 17, 2024 | UCI Health
UCI Health welcomes first patients to new Irvine cancer center
The UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center opened its second clinical hub on July 16, marking a significant milestone in cancer care for Orange County.