Tag: Alyssa Tilly

The African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC) held the 15th international conference on cancer from November 2-5, in Hammamet, Tunisia. UNC Project Malawi investigators participated, with groundbreaking presentations from Dr. Amon Chirwa, cancer medical officer; Tarsizious Chikaonda, data scientist and study coordinator for the TINY Ulysses Study;...

Palliative care improves the quality of life for patients (adults and children) with life-threatening illness. It prevents and relieves suffering through the early identification and correct assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychosocial or spiritual. Early delivery of palliative care can also reduce unnecessary hospital admissions...

  A five-year training grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute expands the capacity of UNC’s Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to train the next generation of cancer researchers in Malawi, Africa. The Malawi Cancer Outcomes Research Program, or M-CORP,...