UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Magazine Spring 2017 | Page 2

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IMMUNOTHERAPY
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Using the Human
Body as a Weapon
Against Cancer
SURVIVOR PROFILE................6
CLINICAL UPDATE.................9
UAB Opens New Integrative
Medicine Clinic
CENTER PROFILE...................11
Jeffrey Nix, M.D.
BCRFA PRESENTS
RECORD-BREAKING
DONATION...............................23
Harvest for Health Expands
Across Alabama
SCIENTIST PROFILE...............17
Lalita Shevde-Samant, Ph.D.
TO THE CENTER
UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. All
donations are tax-deductible as allowed by
law and may be designated for the cancer
RESEARCH UPDATE..............16
GIVING
There are a variety of ways to give to the
RESEARCH UPDATE.............14
UAB Brings Proton Therapy for
Advanced Cancer Treatment to
Birmingham
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2017 ARTBLINK..................... 20
Maggie Hanberry
2017 • VOLUME XXXIII • NUMBER 1
RESEARCH BRIEFS................ 24
or research area of your choice. Every dollar
stays here in Birmingham and is directly
NEWS AND EVENTS............26
INSIDE VIEW.......................... 28
In Memoriam: Emmie Bolden
applied to cancer research and treatment.
Donations may be made by visiting the
Cancer Center’s Web site, uab.edu/cancer,
or by calling the Office of Development and
Community Relations at [phone].