Immunotherapies for Prostate Cancer

Main Focus Areas: Interrogation of molecular mechanisms underlying race-related prostate tumor aggressiveness Development of biomarkers based on mechanisms of race-related tumor aggressiveness to better predict how aggressive a patient’s prostate cancer will be Modulation of mechanisms of race-...

Prostate Cancer Disparities

African American men are nearly two times more likely to get prostate cancer and more frequently have prostate cancer that forms, grows and spreads more quickly compared to white men. They are nearly three times more likely to die from prostate cancer compared to white men. These disparities likely...

Collaboration

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Office of Health Equity and Disparities

Recipient Of The 2017 ACCC Innovator Award Duke Cancer Institute is among 10 cancer centers named by the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) to receive its 2017 Innovator Award. Duke Cancer Institute, through the Office of Health Equity and Disparities, develped a five-step roadmap for...

Partnership

Advocate

Advocacy in cancer care has never been more critical. With your help, the DCI Center for Prostate & Urologic Cancers will work to defeat the most relentless enemy of our generation. Advocates can help move cancer care and research forward through their gifts of time and talent. Join our...

Patierno/Freedman/George Lab

Cancer affects individuals of African ancestry in the United States disproportionately; as blacks have the highest death rate of any race and ethnicity from all cancer sites combined and lower five-year relative survival than whites for the majority of cancer sites. This disparity likely results...

Armstrong Lab

The Armstrong lab studies epithelial and phenotypic plasticity in prostate cancer metastasis and therapy resistance. Epithelial plasticity is the reversible switch between cellular phenotypes that promotes invasion, chemoresistance, and metastasis. Our translational research group combines clinical...

Prostate Cancer Diagnostics

The Minimally Invasive Technologies for the Management and Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer lab is led by Thomas Polascik, MD. The lab focuses on translational programs that have direct consequences on improving patient care and surgical therapy with an emphasis on prostate cancer diagnostics,...

Team Up

Are you passionate about our community? Do you have expertise that would strengthen our fundraising efforts? We are always grateful for community partners who wish to lend a hand in our fundraising events and campaigns. DCI Center for Prostate & Urologic Cancers relies on volunteers from the...

Host A Fundraiser

Whether you sing, race cars, ride motorcycles, make fabulous lemonade, cycle or walk, you can make a difference when you unite your passion with your commitment to fund cancer research at DCI Center for Prostate & Urologic Cancers. Create a page to showcase and promote your efforts. Then...

Collaborate

In the modern world of cancer research, collaboration between scientists, academic institutions, advocates and industry companies are becoming more and more prevalent and necessary to foster new methods to prevent, treat and cure cancer. At Duke Prostate & Urologic Cancer Center, we are poised...

Patient

We invite you to share your story to help raise awareness. If you have been or are being treated for a prostate or urologic cancer at Duke or if you are a caregiver, we'd like to know how cancer care, research or clinical trials at Duke has affected your life. Are you a donor? If so, please...

Narrate

Have you had a powerful connection with Duke Prostate & Urologic Cancer Center? If you'd like to share it, we'd love to hear it. By submitting your story and/or picture, you are granting Duke Cancer Institute the right to contact you about the story and image. Collected stories may be used...

Participate

Are you passionate about our community? Do you have expertise that would strengthen our fundraising efforts? We are always grateful for community partners who wish to lend a hand in our fundraising events and campaigns. Duke Prostate & Urologic Cancer Center relies on volunteers from the...

Lifestyle & Survivorship Research

Contact Us

The lab seeks to accommodate and collaborate with the spectrum of physicians, scientists, students and others with similar research interests. For more information, please contact: Jennifer Freedman Email: Jennifer.Freedman@Duke.edu Phone: 919.684.6354