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Caregiver costs and financial burden in caregivers of African American cancer survivors
Purpose:
People with cancer commonly rely on loved ones as informal caregivers during and after treatment. Costs related to caregivi...
Breast cancer knowledge & information seeking among African American women below screening age
Objectives:
African American women below screening age disproportionately face greater mortality from breast cancer relative to peers of other rac...
Moffitt study shows genomic testing can identify African American prostate cancer patients with high-risk disease
African American men tend to be diagnosed more frequently with prostate cancer and have higher mortality rates than men of other races and ethnicit...
The association of serum vitamin D with incident diabetes in an African American population
Background:
Incident diabetes risk is inversely proportional to 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels among non-Hispanic white but is...
Breast cancer diagnosis in Inner-City African American and Hispanic women: The importance of early screening
Purpose:
To evaluate the diagnosis of breast cancer in inner-city African-American and Hispanic women under age 50 to support the im...
Combating a killer: Prostate cancer in the African American community
Before she began medical school, Fornati Bedell, M.D., M.H.D., studied public health at Johns Hopkins University. She fondly recalls her first job....
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