Kansas City-based University of Kansas Cancer Center has launched the Center for Survivorship and Patient-Oriented Research as part of an initiative to improve not only cancer survival rates, but cancer survivor quality of life.
The center is led by Anthony Sung, MD, and is supported in part by the Johnson County Education Research Triangle, according to an Oct. 10 news release from the organization.
One of the center's fields of research will be studying the correlation between cancer treatments and accelerated aging, the release said.
Dr. Sung joined the University of Kansas in July after serving as the associate director of Durham, N.C.-based Duke University's Microbiome Center and senior fellow at Duke University's Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.