Duke Cancer Institute

Every rider makes a difference. Join us at Duke Rides for an indoor cycling relay. Funds raised go directly toward cancer research, clinical trials, and patient care, helping DCI continue delivering hope and healing to patients and families across our community. Grab your team (4+ riders) and register today: https://duke.is/DukeRides

Together we ride. Together we fight.

📆 Saturday, Oct. 3
⏰ 12-5 p.m.
📍 Wilson Recreation Center, Durham, NC

Register now for the 2026 Community Education Event for Genitourinary Cancers. Learn what's new and what may lie ahead for treatment of prostate, kidney, and bladder cancers. Plus expert advice on food, fitness, sexual health, and more.

Come to ask questions. Stay to share your story with others.

📆 Saturday, Sept. 19
⏰ 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
📍 NCCU Student Center

Register and learn more: https://bit.ly/4geuKuX

Max Bucklan, a PhD candidate and member of the Gregory Lab in the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke, used LEGO bricks and minifigures to produce a stop-motion video that won the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation’s biomedical video contest.

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Duke University School of Medicine

Brick by brick, a Duke PhD student makes brain research easier to grasp When Max Bucklan opened an e-newsletter from the Duke Graduate School last March, his eyes landed on three words that “stopped me dead in my tracks,” he said. The three words? Biomedical video contest.

Glioblastoma is an aggressive, fast-growing brain cancer that's difficult to treat, with most patients facing a life expectancy of less than two years after diagnosis. DCI's Annick Desjardins, MD, spoke to Today Show about the warning signs she looks for in her own body.

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Duke Health | Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke

This 1 Morning Symptom Can Be an Early Sign of Deadly Brain Cancer, Doctor Warns A neuro-oncologist at the Duke Cancer Center Brain Tumor Clinic who treats patients with the most aggressive brain cancer shares the warning signs she looks for in her own body.

Register now for the 2026 Community Education Event for Genitourinary Cancers. Learn what's new and what may lie ahead for treatment, plus expert advice on food, fitness, sexual health, and more.

Come to ask questions. Stay to share your story with others.

📆 Saturday, Sept. 19
⏰ 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
📍 NCCU Student Center

Register and learn more: https://bit.ly/4geuKuX

Drawing on her own experience as a cancer survivor, DCI's Sophia Smith, PhD, led the development and testing of the Cancer Distress Coach app—supported by federal funding—which has been shown to significantly reduce PTSD, anxiety, and depression symptoms while improving access to mental health support for cancer survivors.

https://duke.is/m/35dn

Duke University School of Nursing

Transforming Cancer Recovery with an App For Sophia K. Smith, PhD, MSW, FAOSW, personal experience and challenges have helped build the foundation of her work.“In addition to being a social scientist, I’m also a 51-year cancer survivor,” said Dr. Smith, Associate Professor at Duke University School of Nursing. “I experienced Hodgki...

After years of treatment for his pancreatic cancer, a recurrence that threatened to derail his recovery and a last-minute acceptance into a clinical trial at Duke Health, one patient is now considered to have no evidence of disease.

https://duke.is/n/x7cp

Duke Health

'I don't even feel like I've got cancer': A new drug is giving hope to Mathews County man When Brad Dugai was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he spent the first week preparing for what he believed would be the end. Now, the 55-year-old father said he often forgets he even has cancer. A...

Two decades after Patrick Schultea underwent treatment for prostate cancer, his prostate-specific antigen levels began to rise, signaling the cancer was back. But because tiny radioactive seeds had been implanted in his prostate at a local hospital to treat his first bout with cancer, Schultea needed a new approach.

He found it at Duke Health. Today he’s back to renovating his beach house and enjoying life with his family.

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Duke Health

Adaptive SBRT Modifies and Targets Prostate Cancer in Real Time Two decades after Patrick Schultea underwent treatment for prostate cancer, his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels began to rise, signaling that the cancer was back.