Wendy R. Brewster, MD, PhD, a compassionate clinician-scientist who focused her career on caring for women with gynecologic cancer and studying at-risk populations and the disparate mechanisms leading to poor outcomes in endometrial, ovarian, and cervical cancers, died of pancreatic cancer on July 24. She passed surrounded and supported by her family in Houston, where her sister lived.
A new center at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University will focus research efforts on eliminating cancer disparities in Georgia and nationwide.
Cancer research centers conducting clinical trials could enroll more patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups by placing greater emphasis on relieving
In an era of intensifying judicial repudiation of evidence-based guidelines and deepening public mistrust toward science, America’s screening rate for cervical cancer has been declining.
St. Jude’s Path to a Bright Future, an HPV awareness and vaccination campaign with nearly 160 partners, is aimed at reducing that disease burden by targeting children in a crucial age range.
The standard of care in HPV vaccination may soon change if a one-dose regimen is found to be just as efficacious as two or three doses—once a large trial that NCI is conducting in Costa Rica, in young women ages 12 to 16, is ready to report final results in a few years. “We’ve done […]
At first glance, the United States Supreme Court’s 303 Creative LLC. v. Elenis ruling has nothing to do with health care—but, looking deeper, experts in oncology and law are sounding alarms that the decision can be used to discriminate against LGBTQ+ patients.
Progress against cancer, as brought about by high quality academic cancer centers, requires individual excellence from experts who apply distinct, highly specific skill sets to a common goal within the cancer center. The cancer center coordinates and supports these efforts.
Community Outreach and Engagement (COE), now augmented with the Plan to Enhance Diversity (PED), is critical and central to the impact of NCI-designated cancer centers, and both are set forth as required components for the NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG).
People experiencing racial discrimination are more reluctant to get vaccinations, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Office of Community Health & Research.
