07/12/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/12/2024 19:05
Contact:
Link to video and sound (details below): https://go.hawaii.edu/geF
(Photos are also available upon request)
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WHAT: The University of Hawai'i Cancer Center hosted an "Employee Appreciation Day" event for nearly 200 of its faculty and staff who assembled for a special celebration. UH Cancer Center Director and two-time cancer survivor Naoto Ueno addressed employees about the center's anticipated final notice of its five-year renewal of its National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation.
WHEN: July 12, 2024
WHO: Nearly 200 employees of the UH Cancer Center, including research, clinical and support staff attended the event.
WHERE: UH Cancer Center (Kaka'ako campus of UH Mānoa)
WHY: The event celebrates the collective work and progress by UH Cancer Center employees toward ending cancer and saving lives in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. It also marks a recent positive visit by representatives from the federal NCI, as the UH Cancer Center awaits final notice on renewal as one of only 72 cancer centers with a prestigious NCI designation.
OTHER FACTS:
Link to video and sound (details below): https://go.hawaii.edu/geF
VIDEO BROLL: trt 1:20
-Entire staff taking a group photo
-Ueno addressing employees
SOUNDBITES:
Naoto T. Ueno, UH Cancer Center Director and Cancer Survivor (:17)
"Todayʻs celebration is really to show our strong appreciation to our employees because we will have a formal announcement next week regarding our NCI (National Cancer Institute) designation of our cancer center."
Ueno (:25)
"So when I say care, we're talking about developing new types of cancer prevention, new ways of diagnosing cancer, new ways of treating the cancer. So collectively, all these activities result in saving lives in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific"
Ueno (:25)
"300 actually physically in this building. But we also work with our partners, the healthcare partners and thereʻs additional which I canʻt really count, but thereʻs a number of physicians, nurses and research people who are outside. So every one of us works together to make that difference."
VOSOT SCRIPT
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The University of Hawaii Cancer Center hosted an "Employee Appreciation Day" event for nearly 200 of its research, clinical and support staff who assembled for a special celebration.
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UH Cancer Center Director and two-time cancer survivor Naoto Ueno addressed employees about the center's important mission and the critical work the team does for Hawaiʻi and beyond.
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(Naoto T. Ueno, UH Cancer Center Director and Cancer Survivor)
<"So when I say care, we're talking about developing new types of cancer prevention, new ways of diagnosing cancer, new ways of treating the cancer. So collectively, all these activities result in saving lives in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.">
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The UH Cancer Center is one of only 72 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in the nation. And it is the only NCI-designated cancer center in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific, serving and researching Hawaiʻi's multi-ethnic and Native Hawaiian populations, as well as the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands.