Research grants provided by the Community Foundation of Broward have helped Memorial Cancer Institute, in collaboration with Florida Atlantic University, establish a patient registry and biorepository (tumor bank) for minority cancer patients.Â
The world’s only biobank that collects healthy breast tissue is once again taking the lead to fulfill another unmet need in breast cancer research: collecting tissue from men to understand how male breast cancer develops.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center will be the national coordinating center for a new epidemiological cohort study among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.Â
Amelie Ramirez, chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences and leader of Salud America! at UT Health San Antonio, won the 2023 Association of American Cancer Institutes Cancer Health Equity Award.Â
Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center’s John Theurer Cancer Center established a satellite phase I clinical trial program at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, providing patients access to novel drugs or combinations of drugs for those in need of new options.Â
David Wheeler, member of the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center, was awarded a five-year, $1.7 million R01 grant from NCI to study thelong-term effects of neighborhood exposures and racial segregation on cancer risk through the use of innovative statistical models and analysis.
ChristianaCare received a $1 million gift from the Bacchieri Family to support the purchase of a state-of-the-art radiography system to analyze breast cancer specimens at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute and expand a fellowship program to reduce disparities in breast and lung cancer.
The Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act resulted in a 19% annual increase in Medicaid-insured cancer patients participating in publicly funded clinical trials, according to researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, the SWOG Statistics and Data Management Center and Columbia University.
Patients with cancer who live in rural Pennsylvania counties appear to know that they may have better outcomes if they receive their cancer surgery at a hospital that performs a high volume of those surgeries, but still opt for lower volume hospitals closer to home when their cancer is likely less complex, according to an analysis by health policy scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health.Â
Rural women with cancer often receive financial support from within their communities and from formal organizations, but not all patients have equal access to this assistance, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Office of Community Health & Research.Â
