NEWS | Feist-Weiller Cancer Center

Business Wire - Guardant Health, Inc., a leading precision oncology company, announced a collaboration with Dak Prescott’s Faith Fight Finish Foundation and the LSUHS mobile cancer screening program, Partners in Wellness, to increase colorectal cancer screening rates in northern and central Louisiana.

KSLA 12 - The 80's Themed Fundraiser proceeds will support renovations to a hospitality home for Feist-Weiller Cancer Center patients who travel for their cancer treatment to have a comfortable space to receive outpatient care.

The Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) has awarded continuing accreditation to the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center’s Center for Precision Medicine Genomics Laboratory at LSUHS.

KSLA12 - What started as a clinic to provide more healthcare to those in rural areas grew into an idea to go mobile with more than 21,000 people screened for various cancers.

Shreveport Times - Since 1999, Partners In Wellness has provided cancers screenings to individuals in north and central Louisiana, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.

KTAL 6 - A mobile cancer screening program created by Feist Weiller Cancer Center is celebrating a milestone 25 years of offering life-saving cancer screenings and education to citizens regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay. 

In collaboration with LSU Health New Orleans, Jerry McLarty, PhD, LSUHS Professor of Medicine, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, awarded a five-year sub-award for research project, "Improving Cervical Cancer Prevention in Louisiana.” 

KTBS3 - Saturday, April 23rd, LSUHS will participate in the Annual Cancer Survivorship Walkathon at Betty Virginia Park beginning at 9 am. This is an opportunity to honor someone with cancer and provide encouragement.

Geaux Bald is a medical student group at LSUHS and they held their annual fundraiser March 14, 2024. The fundraiser inspires students, faculty, and members of the community to shave or cut their hair in support of cancer patients.

Located on the main floor of the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, the new Storment Technology Center will provide patients with online access to important information related to their cancer diagnosis and treatment.

“As oncologists appreciating first-hand the challenges of everything surrounding a cancer diagnosis, we’re thrilled that funds raised through Life Savers 2024 will provide a housing facility for cancer patients receiving treatment at the Feist-Weiller,” said Dr. Sanjay Juneja.

KTBS 3 - Life Savers is a celebration and opportunity to raise vital funds for North Louisiana’s only academic cancer center. This year, proceeds from the event will support an effort to create a hospitality lodging facility for FWCC patients undergoing treatment. 

KSLA12 - Life Savers will take place on February 8th at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum under the theme "A Night at the Museum." Click here for tickets.

LSU Health Shreveport / Feist-Weiller Cancer Center is a strategic partner with MD Anderson and the Cancer Focus Fund LP working to advance promising cancer therapies.

Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, a Center of Excellence in Cancer Research, Treatment and Education at LSUHS and Loxo@Lilly, the oncology unit of Eli Lilly and Company, recently launched a new research collaboration that will provide next-generation sequencing (NGS) access to underserved cancer patients in the northern Louisiana region.