Sam Presti, executive vice president and general manager of the Oklahoma City Thunder, and his wife, Shannon, have announced their gift of $600,000 to The Children’s Hospital at OU Medicine.
Among all major cancers, pancreatic cancer has the highest rate of death – 93 percent of patients die within five years of diagnosis.
A revolutionary new treatment that harnesses the body’s own immune cells to fight tumors will be offered at the Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine, beginning June 13.
The OU Norman campus offers one of the longest running Lean/Six Sigma certification programs in the country, offering workshops to students and corporate partners since 2006. Lean and Six Sigma are benchmark process improvement approaches.
Although screenings and treatments have improved, colon cancer remains the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. To improve that statistic, a researcher at the Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine has been awarded a $2.3 million grant to look at the disease through an innovative lens: how bacteria in the colon may trigger the development of cancer.