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.
Awareness of breast density appears to increase one’s perceived breast cancer risk for a short time after undergoing mammography in Northern Manhattan according to a study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Richard Silvera is working to build trust between doctors Bronx communities that have a heavy burden of anal cancer.
A study, led by Randy Vince Jr. and Daniel Spratt, demonstrated the link between cancer outcomes and social determinants of health, as opposed to only race.
To mark World Cancer Day, researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in collaboration with the Lalla Salma Foundation for Cancer Prevention and Treatment (Morocco) published a report that provides solutions to overcoming some of the common system-level barriers to implementation of cervical cancer screening, which are faced in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Investigators from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey found that a higher risk of mortality in Black breast cancer survivors is associated with a history of cigarette smoking along with regular alcohol consumption at the time of diagnosis.
A study, published in The Lancet Oncology, reports large international differences in survival among patients diagnosed with 15 common cancer types in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
