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Nurse Leader Helps Lead Battle against Breast Cancer in African American Women

September 29, 2011 | Story

As a young girl, RWJF Fellow Janice Phillips bore painful witness to the scourge of breast cancer; now she's a renowned leader of the campaign to end it.

Racial Disparities in Rectal Cancer Treatment

February 1, 2004 | Journal Article

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer mortality in the United States. Recently, there has been a small, but palpable decline in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality; yet for black patients the rate of decline has been less tha ...

Racial Differences in Survival Among Men with Prostate Cancer and Comorbidity at Time of Diagnosis

May 1, 2004 | Journal Article

Black men with prostate cancer have poorer disease-specific and overall survival rates than do their U.S. White counterparts. Comorbidity at the time of diagnosis has been shown to predict both overall survival and cause-specific mortality among Whi ...

Racial Differences in Surviving Prostate Cancer

April 11, 2005 | Story

How do black men suffering from prostate cancer fare in comparison to white men?

Nigerian Nurse Helps African Immigrants Battle Breast Cancer

October 17, 2012 | News Release

RWJF honors Ifeanyi Anne Nwabukwu, RN, BSN, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.

Chromosomal Fragile Sites: The Relationship with Hepatitis B Virus and Liver Cancers

September 30, 2008 | Story

"I've always been a very curious person-sometimes to my parents' chagrin because I would take things apart and not be able to put them back together," Roberts recalls.

Scholar Expands Grassroots Prevention Program for Prostate Health

December 21, 2009 | Story

Potentially life-saving program increases outreach to educate black men about the pros and cons of prostate cancer screening, while providing a model for community-based participatory research.

Keith L. Black, MD

January 31, 2008 | Story

Black pioneered research on designing ways to open the blood-brain barrier, enabling chemotherapeutic drugs to be delivered directly into a tumor.

M.D. Anderson IVR (Interactive Voice Response) System Training

January 1, 2011 | Toolkit

This resource contains instructions for the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system and how it is used for the purpose of symptom assessment and management. It is a multiple software/hardware system that consists mainly in a telephone calling system ...

Alabama Program Teaches Cosmetologists and College Students to Conduct Community-Based Health Outreach

October 1, 2004 | Program Result

Faculty in the Department of Nursing at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., trained cosmetologists and others to deliver community-based health education and screening services.

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