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  • Cancer Survivorship Center Faculty

Cancer Survivorship Research Center

Our Mission is to create, expand, and disseminate knowledge addressing survivorship across the cancer continuum.

Our Vision is to conduct research that alleviates the impact of cancer in South Carolina, the nation, and the world.

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Meet the Experts

Center Co-Directors

  • E-health interventions for young adult cancer survivors
  • Exercise interventions 
  • Peer mentoring 
  • Maintaining healthy lifestyles 

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  • Theoretically-based family-targeted intervention development and testing 
  • Mobile health technologies as an intervention delivery modality 
  • Lung cancer survivorship 
  • Lung cancer screening

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Core Faculty

  • Sleep quality improvements
  • System management strategies
  • Early stage lung cancer survivorship

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  • Health disparities
  • Access to cancer care
  • Cancer survivorship
  • Outcomes research

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  • Big data approaches in cancer screening and epidemiology
  • Genome x environment interaction in cancer and aging
  • Cancer treatment, epigenome, microbiome, and other omics
  • Lifestyle, nutrition, and mental health with cancer survivors
  • Factors for substance use and mental health and treatment

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  • Symptoms related to oral targeted therapy
  • Adherence to oral cancer therapy
  • Aging and cancer
  • Oncology clinical trial

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  • Sources of dietary inflammation and chronic disease risk, especially cancer
  • Health disparities
  • Cortisol levels and pattern on health outcomes
  • Effect of meditation on symptoms among cancer survivors

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  • Therapeutic management for women with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Social connectedness
  • Digital technology for intervention delivery
  • Biological impact of resistance exercise

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Associate Faculty

  • Exercise to optimize clinically relevant outcomes in cancer patients
  • Resistance training across the cancer continuum
  • Nutrition/supplementation to augment training adaptations
  • Exercise medicine and tumor biology

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  • Survivorship and patient reported outcome measures in cancer survivors
  • Assessment of upper extremity impairments in women diagnosed with breast cancer

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  • Clinical pediatric oncologist at Prisma Health
  • Chair, SC Childhood Cancer Task Force
  • 2024-2025 Propel Research Mentorship Program

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Affiliate Members

  • Prisma Health
  • South Carolina Oncology Associates

Student Affiliate Members

Identifying the prevalence of early onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC): Examining associations between potential risk factors and disease occurrence; and Exploring an understanding of patients’ lived experiences and contextual factors that may contribute to EOCRC development.

A multi-method approach to exploring colorectal cancer (CRC) screening beliefs and practices in the Russian-speaking immigrants in upstate South Carolina

Information seeking behaviors among breast cancer patients. CV

A mixed method approach to examining physical activity and fatigue in individuals with melanoma.

Barriers and enablers to colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in younger adults in South Carolina.

 


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