A healthy diet may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in African - American women, according to data presented at the Eighth American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Conference on the Science
of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial / Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, held Nov. 13 - 16.
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Research Cancer Health Disparities New Faculty 2017 School of Medicine Tuya Pal Vanderbilt Hereditary Cancer Clinic Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center
G. Expand use of proven cancer prevention and early detection strategies Reduce cancer risk and
cancer health disparities through approaches in development, testing and broad adoption of proven prevention strategies.
Students will also have the opportunity to present their findings before a regional or national conference and benefit from seminar series focused on
translational cancer health disparities research.
On completion of the program, each undergraduate trainee will have worked on a hypothesis - driven research project
in cancer health disparities and developed a research paper (based on the findings of the ancillary project).
Disparities in colorectal cancer death rates take a large toll on the national economy, with poorer, less - educated communities bearing the greatest burden, according to data presented at the Eighth American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Conference on the Science
of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial / Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, held Nov. 13 - 16.
This work of cross-disciplinary impact would advance our understanding of lymphocyte processes, help design effective combinatorial immune strategies that strengthen lymphocyte function and overcome cancer - associated immunosuppression, and could identify immunogenetic signatures to explain
the cancer health disparities observed in various ethnicities.
Nicole Cranley, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in
the Cancer Health Disparities Training Program at the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.