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Their name may be on a UC Irvine building, but members of the Chao family prefer working behind the scenes to improve the health of the community. Since their first gift to the university in 1995, three generations of Chaos have given nearly $30 million to the campus, quietly reshaping cancer research and care in Orange County and beyond.

 The inaugural UC Irvine Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center anti-cancer bike-a-thon and race drew thousands of runners and cyclists, raised more that $600,000 for cancer research.

Orange County philanthropists fund creation of the Sue and Ralph Stern Center for Clinical Trials and Research at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

After more than a decade of work helping patients like Allen Fremont, Dr. Sai-hong Ignatius Ou has gained FDA approval for a drug treatment that targets mutations of non-small cell lung cancers.

Brain cancer patient James Green sees a future for himself because of leading-edge surgery and innovative vaccines he received at UC Irvine's Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Targeted treatment in a UC Irvine clinical trial led by Dr. Ignatius Ou has rendered Jackie Raser’s lung tumor dormant and vastly improved her quality of life.

Avid paddle boarder Lan Zentil, who had a rare bone cancer removed from her shoulder by UC Irvine Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center specialists, is fully recovered and back on the waves.

HIPEC, a procedure that bathes the abdomen with heated chemotherapy drugs after ovarian cancer surgery, helps prevent any remaining cancer cells from spreading, say UC Irvine gynecologic oncologists.