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Nurse Leader Combats Cancer Among African Immigrant Women

July 25, 2013 | Story

Ifeanyi (Ify) Anne Nwabukwu, winner of prestigious RWJF Community Health Leader award, is working to narrow health disparities.

Cervical Cancer Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Interventions for Racial and Ethnic Minorities

August 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Researchers conducted a systematic review of the research literature to determine which interventions improve cervical cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis or treatment for racial or ethnic minorities in the United States

Understanding Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment and Outcomes

July 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Patients, providers and the health care system all are contributing factors in higher cancer mortality among minorities.

Video Teaches Doctors to Reach Across Cultural Boundaries to Talk about Cancer

May 1, 2002 | Program Results Report

During 2000 and 2001, staff from Harvard University School of Public Health and its Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention produced an educational videotape designed to help health care providers improve the quality of care they provide to patients from different cultural backgrounds.

Barriers of and Facilitators to Physician Recommendation of Colorectal Cancer Screening

December 1, 2007 | Journal Article

This study looked at barriers of and facilitators to physician recommendation of colorectal cancer screening.

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 ...

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.

Interventions to Improve Care Related to Colorectal Cancer Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities

August 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Researchers systematically reviewed the medical literature for interventions conducted within health care systems that have the potential to decrease racial and ethnic disparities in the care of colorectal cancer.

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.

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.

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