Making cancer health disparities history: Report of the Trans-HHS Cancer Health Disparities Progress Review Group

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Cancer Health Disparities ◽  
Review Group

scholarly journals An Overview of Cancer Health Disparities: New Approaches and Insights and Why They Matter

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsion Zewdu Minas ◽  
Maeve Kiely ◽  
Anuoluwapo Ajao ◽  
Stefan Ambs
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Care Disparities ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Tumor Biology ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Cancer Therapies ◽  
Cancer Health Disparities

Abstract Cancer health disparities remain stubbornly entrenched in the US health care system. The Affordable Care Act was legislation to target these disparities in health outcomes. Expanded access to health care, reduction in tobacco use, uptake of other preventive measures and cancer screening, and improved cancer therapies greatly reduced cancer mortality among women and men and underserved communities in this country. Yet, disparities in cancer outcomes remain. Underserved populations continue to experience an excessive cancer burden. This burden is largely explained by health care disparities, lifestyle factors, cultural barriers, and disparate exposures to carcinogens and pathogens, as exemplified by the COVID-19 epidemic. However, research also shows that comorbidities, social stress, ancestral and immunobiological factors, and the microbiome, may contribute to health disparities in cancer risk and survival. Recent studies revealed that comorbid conditions can induce an adverse tumor biology, leading to a more aggressive disease and decreased patient survival. In this review, we will discuss unanswered questions and new opportunities in cancer health disparity research related to comorbid chronic diseases, stress signaling, the immune response, and the microbiome, and what contribution these factors may have as causes of cancer health disparities.

Cancer Health Disparities

2019 ◽  
pp. 199-246
Author(s):  
B. Lee Green ◽  
Jenna L. Davis ◽  
Desiree Rivers ◽  
Kyrel L. Buchanan ◽  
Kosj Yamoah
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Cancer Health Disparities

scholarly journals Matrix Metalloproteinase Genes Are Associated with Breast Cancer Risk and Survival: The Breast Cancer Health Disparities Study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. e63165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha L. Slattery ◽  
Esther John ◽  
Gabriela Torres-Mejia ◽  
Mariana Stern ◽  
Abbie Lundgreen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Breast Cancer Risk ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Matrix Metalloproteinase ◽  
Cancer Health Disparities

scholarly journals Epigenetic basis of cancer health disparities: Looking beyond genetic differences

2017 ◽  
Vol 1868 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aamir Ahmad ◽  
Shafquat Azim ◽  
Haseeb Zubair ◽  
Mohammad Aslam Khan ◽  
Seema Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Genetic Differences ◽  
Cancer Health Disparities

Cancer Health Disparities

2012 ◽  
pp. 344-347
Author(s):  
Claudia Baquet ◽  
Shivonne Laird
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Cancer Health Disparities
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