Join Simmons Cancer Institute at SIU Medicine for the Women's Power Lunch Against Cancer on Thursday, April 4. The event will be held from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the President Abraham Lincoln Springfield Hotel and feature guest speaker Dr. Bertice Berry, who will share a message of resilience, kindness, humor and hope.
The event is an opportunity to celebrate survivors, gather with friends and network, all while providing support to fight this horrible disease. Funds raised at this event are invested in cancer research at SCI.
Dr. Wiley Jenkins is researching an information-motivation-behavioral model intervention to improve awareness and education surrounding HPV infection, its prevention and cervical cancer screening in individuals facing disparities. A second grant, awarded to Dr. Andrzej Bartke, is studying the role growth hormone plays in cancer. Age is a known risk factor and a better understanding of the effects of growth hormone on cells could impact cancer treatment options one day.
