WVU Cancer joins Cedars-Sinai in 1st-of-kind outreach program

Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Cancer Institute has joined Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Cancer’s Certificate in Community Outreach and Engagement program alongside select cancer centers across the U.S.

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The program, the first-of-its-kind, trains cancer center staff on community outreach and engagement, according to a Sept. 20 news release from WVU Medicine. 

The WVU Cancer Institute will be the only non-NCI designated cancer center in the collective. 

The other institutions in the program are Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Cancer, Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center at University of Washington Medicine, Kansas City-based University of Kansas Cancer Center, Philadelphia-based Fox Chase Cancer Center at Temple Health, Calif.-based Stanford Cancer Institute and University of California-Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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