A commentary published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute addresses the issue of cancer equity for people who have been impacted by mass incarceration.
Ishwaria Subbiah was named executive director of cancer care equity and professional wellness at Sarah Cannon Research Institute. In this role, Subbiah will focus on reducing cancer outcomes disparities and diversifying clinical trial participation within SCRI’s combined research network of over 1,300 physicians at over 250 locations in 24 states across the U.S.
Cancer prevention and control and efforts to ensure health equity are essential in meeting the Cancer Moonshot goal of halving cancer mortality in the next 25 years, but some complex scientific and societal problems must be resolved for this to happen, a group of four directors of NCI-designated cancer centers said.
The United States has the worst health outcomes of any high-income nation—lagging behind on health status indicators including mortality, fertility, and morbidity—and recent rulings by Texas district judges against preventive services and mifepristone would widen that gap, experts say.
Francisco Sanchez-Vega was awarded the Corning-MSK Health Equity Research Fellowship, a two-year grant that funds research into the broad disparities in cancer outcomes for patients in historically underserved communities.
The American Cancer Society and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, are partnering to execute a $4 million collaborative effort to provide equitable access to every cancer patient and their families.
Cancer and its treatment can accelerate the rate of aging because they both destabilize and damage biological systems in the body. Research published in Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society, found that African American cancer survivors who reported high levels of discrimination exhibited greater aging and frailty than those reporting lower levels of discrimination.
Selwyn M. Vickers wants Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to become better known in Harlem, Coney Island, and other parts of New York City where the elite institution he now leads is not a go-to place.
Idalid Franco, Sophia Kamran, and Anwaar Saeed were named health equity fellows by NRG Oncology, an NCI National Clinical Trials Network group, as a part of the organization’s Health Equity Fellowship Program. Fellows receive an award of $50,000 for two years with an end result of developing a new research protocol within NRG Oncology.
Stand Up To Cancer will fund four teams focused on increasing diversity in early phase cancer clinical trials.
