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Community Health Leader Honored for Creating a Valuable Resource for Rural Cancer Patients

July 20, 2011 | Story

Following her own struggle to access care in an underserved area, Sara O'Donnell helped design a program that's becoming a model for enhancing rural health care.

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.

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 ...

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.

South Carolina Nurse Works to Stop Cancer Before It Starts

October 17, 2012 | News Release

RWJF honors Debbie Chatman Bryant, DNP, RN, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.

Are Physicians Discussing Prostate Cancer Screening with Their Patients and Why or Why Not?

July 1, 2007 | Journal Article

This article assessed whether primary care physicians routinely discuss prostate cancer screening with their patients, and explored the barriers to and facilitators of these discussions.

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.

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 ...

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