News Center Search Results Search results for keyword(s) "racial disparities" for items between "01/01/1998" and "09/30/2012".

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1.   Vanderbilt study reveals racial disparities in prostate cancer care
(Posted: 08/24/2012) - A study led by investigators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), Nashville, Tenn., finds that black men with prostate cancer receive lower quality surgical care than white men. The racial differences persist even when controlling for factors such as the year of surgery, age, comorbidities and insurance status.

2.   St. Jude analysis finds equal access to care helps close survival gap for young African-American cancer patients
(Posted: 05/01/2012) - A new analysis from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital adds to evidence that equal access to comprehensive treatment and supportive care typically translates into equally good outcomes for most young African-American and white cancer patients. Researchers found no significant difference in survival rates between African-American and white children treated at St. Jude for virtually all cancers during a 15-year period ending in 2007.

3.   MD Anderson study finds cancer related pain often undertreated
(Posted: 04/17/2012) - More than one third of patients with invasive cancer are undertreated for their pain, with minorities twice as likely to not receive analgesics, according to research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

4.   Roswell Park-led study finds vitamin D influences racial differences in breast cancer risk
(Posted: 04/06/2012) - American women of African ancestry are more likely than European Americans to have estrogen-receptor-negative (ER-negative) breast cancer. There continues to be discussion about the role of low levels of vitamin D in the development of breast cancer for these women. New research by a team from Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and four other institutions has shown that specific genetic variations in the vitamin D receptor (VDR) and in CYP24A1 (responsible for deactivating vitamin D) are associated with an increase in breast cancer risk — particularly for ER-negative breast cancer — for African-American women.

5.   UCSF study finds few young women with cancer take steps to preserve fertility during treatments
(Posted: 03/26/2012) - A new study has found that very few young women with cancer take steps to preserve their fertility while undergoing cancer therapy. Also, certain groups of young women are more likely to do so than others. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that efforts are needed to provide counseling on fertility preservation in reproductive-aged women diagnosed with cancer.

6.   St. Jude-led study finds inherited risk factors for childhood leukemia are more common in Hispanic patients
(Posted: 01/31/2012) - Hispanic children are more likely than those from other racial and ethnic backgrounds to be diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and are more likely to die of their disease. Work led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists has pinpointed genetic factors behind the grim statistics.

7.   Study finds racial and ethnic disparities in U.S. cancer screening rates:
(Posted: 01/27/2012) - The percentage of U.S. citizens screened for cancer remains below national targets, with significant disparities among racial and ethnic populations, according to the first federal study to identify cancer screening disparities among Asian and Hispanic groups. The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, was published today in the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

8.   Duke study finds understanding aggressive breast cancers could ease racial disparities in death rates:
(Posted: 09/21/2011) - Some aggressive breast cancer tumors that disproportionately strike African-American women are known to take up blood sugar very rapidly. Now researchers from the Women's Wellness Program at Duke University have found a similar tendency in premalignant breast cells from high-risk African-American women.

9.   Harvard study reports modeling disparities may help with cervical cancer prevention:
(Posted: 09/07/2011) - Researchers reported that explicit inclusion of disparities in cost-effectiveness analysis, would allow policy makers to identify strategies that would reduce overall cancer risk, reduce disparities between racial ethnic subgroups, and be cost-effective.

10.   New Study Implicates Healthcare Utilization Rates, More than Biology, in Colorectal Cancer Disparities
(Posted: 04/06/2010) - Higher rates of colorectal cancer incidence and mortality experienced by African-Americans may be driven largely by differences in health care utilization, and less by biology, according to a new study led by researchers from NCI. Lower rates of follow-up could lead to delayed diagnosis and treatment and higher mortality.