One New Orleans summer camp could save your life

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — SUCRE is an acronym. It stands for Summer Undergraduate Cancer Research Experience, SUCRE.

It’s an experience for college students who come to New Orleans from across the country.

WGNO Good Morning New Orleans features reporter Bill Wood is there.

There is the Louisiana Cancer Research Center, LCRC. It includes four institutions: LSU Health New Orleans, Tulane, Xavier and Ochsner Health.

“This program is something I dreamed about and it’s an intersection of both my passions, which is helping people and learning about science,” said LSU Biological Engineering senior Marie Howe.

This year’s SUCRE fellows, as they’re called, researched at LSU, Tulane and Xavier.

It’s eight weeks of looking under the microscope and into the future.

Right here, the next generation of Louisiana’s cancer researchers work to make a difference.

“I’ve discovered that folk who live out in the country fight not being smokers. Those who don’t have access to food, are over twice as likely to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer,” said Tulane Public Health senior Tessa Peterson.

The camp is in its third year at the Louisiana Cancer Research Center created by the state legislature in the state that has some of the highest cancer rates in America.

“Most of the people who die from cancer in Louisiana, die from the result of lung cancer and Louisiana also has the third highest smoking rate in the nation. I want to be part of that solution,” said Xavier University Chemistry major James Bailey.

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