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The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute welcomed its first high school student into its inaugural Doctors of Tomorrow program this past summer. The program is designed to inspire and prepare Detroit high school students from underrepresented communities to pursue careers in healthcare and give them an individualized experience exploring disparities that affect their communities. The Doctors of Tomorrow is a new partnership between Karmanos and Cass Technical High School. Amari Francis was the first st...

The Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development at Wayne State University’s (WSU) School of Medicine annually recognizes faculty who have made outstanding contributions in teaching, mentoring, research, and leadership. This year, several Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute faculty, researchers, and medical staff at the Karmanos Cancer Center received these awards, highlighting their significant contributions to education and more. Others received promotions and tenure at Wayne State. School...

CBS News Detroit Evita Singh, M.D. , diagnostic radiologist and director of breast imaging, and April Brown, director of Concierge Services and Screening and Prevention at Karmanos, joined CBS News Detroit at 8 a.m. to talk about the importance of cancer screenings and the number of screenings available at this year’s Screening Saves Lives: Cancer Screening and Educational Event . Watch the interview here . Learn more about Screening Saves Lives, schedule your screening and register for the event on Sat...

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute is joining 105.1 The Bounce, Detroit’s Throwback Hip Hop and R&B station, for “Show Us Your Pink.” This breast cancer awareness campaign will run through October and highlight breast cancer survivors while teaching listeners about the disease and the breast cancer screenings they should receive. The festivities will surround Wednesday, Oct. 11, Shannon Renee’s five-year breast cancer survivorship anniversary. “As a triple-negative breast cancer survivor of f...

Hour Detroit’s 2023 Top Docs List  is out; over 30 physicians from the  Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute  are listed. Each year, Hour Detroit Magazine puts out an online peer-to-peer review survey conducted by Professional Research Services (PRS) to determine the top physicians in southeastern Michigan. Participating physicians in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, and Livingston Counties nominate the best doctors in each field. This year’s list also includes a feature with George Yo...

O’Laya Rodgers probably was the most excited teenager to enter Madison High School this fall. She had to take off a year and a half of school as she battled bone cancer. Now, she’s looking forward to prom and graduation. While Rodgers was celebrating her 16 th birthday, a mass in her left knee changed her life. Two months later, during her sophomore year, she was diagnosed with sarcoma of her bone and started chemotherapy within days. Then radiation therapy was added. Later, she had a distal femoral rep...

Detroit native and Wayne State University doctoral student Abigail Fielder has seen the hardships that cancer brings, driving her to find a way to improve disease survivorship by enrolling in the Cancer Biology Graduate Program at the School of Medicine and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute . “African American women are disproportionally affected by hormone receptor positive (HR+) breast cancer compared to European American women,” she said. “Specifically, I am studying the role of genetic ances...

Gynecologic cancers are often referred to as silent diseases because many of the early symptoms are familiar to females and can be easily missed. According to the American Cancer Society, more females will be diagnosed with gynecologic cancer in 2023 than colon cancer. Among the five most common gynecologic cancers, almost 115,000 females will receive a new diagnosis this year. So, what are your chances of developing gynecologic cancer? These cancers only occur in the female reproductive system, so all ...

CBS News Detroit Felicity Harper, Ph.D. , clinical psychologist, member of the Supportive Oncology Multidisciplinary Team , associate center director of Population Studies, member of the Population Studies and Disparities Research Program at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute , and associate professor of Oncology at Wayne State University School of Medicine, joined CBS News Detroit to talk about new research done at Karmanos and McLaren that has shown music can improve mood and reduce stress whil...

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University (WSU) School of Medicine researchers were part of an international study that looked into the survival rate of patients who quit smoking prior to being diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). “Association between duration of smoking abstinence before non-small-cell lung cancer diagnosis and survival: A retrospective, pooled analysis of cohort studies” was published in Lancet Public Health in September 2023. In the study, sur...