On April 26th, 2023 the Parenting with Clinic opened in the N.C. Basnight Cancer Hospital. This clinic is led by UNC Lineberger’s Justin Yopp, PhD and Cindy Rogers, JD, and serves patients who have minor children. The clinic’s mission is to assist parents in supporting and communicating with their children about cancer and to guide … Read more

  Dear UNC Lineberger Cancer Network Friend, Happy Spring!!! The pine pollen seems to have subsided just a bit, and the forests of the Piedmont have transformed to green in just a matter of days. We are very excited to be bringing you TWO Patient Centered Care lectures in the month of April (no joking … Read more

  On April 5th Dr. Samuel Cykert and Ms. Christina Younge will be presenting the PCC live webinar on “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Community-Inclusive Interventions to Achieve Equity in Cancer Care” from 12:00 PM-1:00 PM. Dr. Cykert is a Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in the … Read more

Dear UNC Lineberger Cancer Network Friend, Spring certainly appears to have arrived early. I know that many of us were surprised to find a thin dusting of pine pollen on our windshields in the final days of February. Heck, who needs to wait until April!!! The photo for this article is of my UNCLCN colleague, … Read more

Please tell us a little about yourself and your journey as a DNP.   My name is Melanie Allard; I am a family nurse practitioner who works at UNCH in the division of Medical Oncology, specifically with cancers of the gastrointestinal tract. Through autonomy, I aid in managing this very specialized patient population. This population includes … Read more