All Posts: racial disparities
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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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$3.2 Million Grant Supports Study of New Genetic Testing Approach to Reduce Racial Health Disparities
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $3.2 million grant to investigators from Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, both NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, to examine a novel approach to genetic testing and care based on community-identified needs, with the aim of reducing racial disparity gaps in cancer care delivery.
Category: News Release
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Starting Mammography at Age 40 Would Reduce Differences 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 […]
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