UC IRVINE ANTI-CANCER CHALLENGE
Established in 2017, the UC Irvine Anti-Cancer Challenge brings like-minded people together to fight cancer. Participants ride, run and walk to raise awareness and funds for promising research at the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Corporate partners underwrite event costs, ensuring that 100% of participant contributions go to promising pilot studies and early phase clinical trials. Since 2017, over 17,500 participants have registered to raise funds for cancer research, with thousands of friends and family members who support them on event day. This peer-to-peer challenge has raised more than $6.2 million for cancer research and consistently ranks among the Orange County Business Journal’s top five fundraising run/walks.
UCI HEALTH CHAO FAMILY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER At the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, we work to prevent, manage and cure cancer to help all people live healthier, longer lives. We are fighting cancer on all fronts with our basic science and clinical research. Our cancer center members — drawn from more than 32 departments and seven UC Irvine schools — are organized into three research areas: Biotechnology, Imaging & Drug Development; Systems, Pathways & Targets; and Cancer Control. These programs provide an interactive and collaborative infrastructure for cancer discovery, clinical investigations (including early phase and investigator-initiated trials) and population-based research.
As one of only 57 elite National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the nation, and the only one based in Orange County, we treat more patients with cancer — and more complex cases — than any other healthcare provider in our region.
UCI HEALTH We are UCI Health: a devoted team of nationally regarded physicians, nurses, researchers, clinicians, educators and students united by a single calling — to improve the lives of the people in our community and beyond. As the only academic health system in Orange County, our multifaceted organization is dedicated to the discovery of new medical frontiers, to the teaching of future healers and to the delivery of the finest evidence-based care. Our numerous health providers throughout Orange County and parts of Los Angeles County apply the most advanced medical knowledge — for cancer, neurological disorders, digestive diseases, women’s health and more — ensuring that our community and its residents become healthier and stronger.
This union of discovery, teaching and healing has enabled UCI Health to pioneer new therapies and techniques that have been adopted by institutions across the nation. It gives us the expertise to diagnose and treat exceedingly rare conditions and diseases, always with the least invasive methods possible.
Most important, it means that you and your family have access to the highest quality, knowledge-driven care.
That is the UCI Health commitment: to bring personalized, leading-edge care to you and our community, to be the best place to give and get care.
