{"id":5488,"date":"2026-01-27T08:17:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:25:08","slug":"aus-hosts-cancer-awareness-event-feb-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/aus-hosts-cancer-awareness-event-feb-4\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS hosts cancer awareness event Feb. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Maryam Alchami<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The Health Services and Wellness department at the American University of Sharjah will host a cancer awareness and prevention event for staff and faculty on Feb. 4, coinciding with World Cancer Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to organizers, the event will run from 5:20-6 p.m. at Basketball Court B. It is a 40-minute session aiming to address rising health concerns through three main approaches: physical movement, clinical education, and community advocacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event includes a 15-minute movement session, a 15-minute cancer prevention and health check, and a discussion of the Friends of Cancer Patients (FOCP) program, a Sharjah-based organization founded by Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher to provide financial support to cancer patients and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maryam Alchami UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The Health Services and Wellness department at the American University of Sharjah will host a cancer awareness and prevention event for staff and faculty on Feb. 4, coinciding with World Cancer Day. According to organizers, the event will run from 5:20-6 p.m. at Basketball Court B. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,79],"tags":[33,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-5488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-news","9":"tag-aus","10":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}