All Posts: health disparities
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Ralph Lauren Center Marks Its First Year at Georgetown
Nearly one year after the opening of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention, Ralph Lauren leaders toured the center and received an update on its accomplishments from center leaders and staff.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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New Georgetown Lombardi Office Cultivates Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Cancer Center
The new Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is working to improve diversity and foster a sense of inclusion among research trainees, staff, faculty and leadership.at the cancer center.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Georgetown Lombardi Faculty Members Aim To Improve Lung Cancer Screening and Smoking Cessation Rates by Focusing on Equity in Care
Kathryn Taylor, PhD, professor of oncology, believes she can have no greater impact on reducing the burden of cancer than by focusing on the harms of tobacco use. The work she co-leads with Randi Williams, PhD, assistant professor of oncology, as part of the Lung Screening, Tobacco, and Health (LSTH) research lab at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is especially impactful on underserved communities, who are often the target of tobacco product marketing.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Computer Models Fill Critical Knowledge Gaps To Help Reduce Cancer Disparities
Reducing health disparities in incidence and mortality for major types of cancers can be aided by sophisticated computer modeling efforts, according to a new, wide-ranging perspective by researchers at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and colleagues. A collection of new studies in the November 8, 2023, special issue of JNCI devoted to cancer disparities modeling outlines a path forward.
Category: News Release
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Research To Help Patients Make Informed Decisions About Breast MRI
While many people think that breast cancer screening and mammography are synonymous, Claire Conley, PhD, wants people to know that women who are at higher than average risk for breast cancer may also receive a breast MRI.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention — Part of Washington’s Fabric
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s newly dedicated Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention, with its quadrupling of health-focused staff, brings renewed hope that those who have been historically underserved in the Washington, DC, area will now have access to more cancer-related services and the potential of turning the tide on the high rate of cancer in the city.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Georgetown Announces New Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention To Address Health Disparities in Washington, D.C.
Media Contact Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (April 10, 2023) — The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center will open on Mond
Category: News Release
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Starting Mammography at Age 40 Would Reduce Disparities in Deaths for Black Women
WASHINGTON (October 18, 2021) — If Black women begin mammography screening every other year starting at age 40, breast cancer deaths could be reduced by 57 percent compared to starting screening 10 years later, according to analyses conducted by a modeling team that is part of the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET), funded […]
Category: News Release
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Adams-Campbell Selected for Top Award in Preventive Oncology
(March 28, 2021) — Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD, professor of oncology and associate director for minority health and health disparities research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, will receive the Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Society of Preventive Oncology. The honor will be bestowed virtually on March 29 at the organization’s […]
Category: Special Stories
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Lombardi at 50: Community Outreach to Reduce Health Disparities
(March 5, 2020) — When Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities Research was created in 2008, its associate director, Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD — the nation’s first black female epidemiologist — had a clear vision of need about the work ahead within the community. “Georgetown can come to everyone but […]
Category: Lombardi Stories