Mph Mona N. Fouad Md

TL;DR: Current literature suggests that racial/ethnic minority survivors may be more likely than whites to experience economic hardship after a cancer diagnosis; however, little is known about such hardship.

TL;DR: It is clear that successful recruitment of minority participants to clinical trials needs to begin with efforts to develop trusting relationships between the minority community and the research institution, and this inequity in participation contributes to the ongoing health disparities.

TL;DR: The Community Health Advisor (CHA) model has been widely used to recruit rural and low‐income, mostly African American women into clinical and behavioral research studies, but little is known about its effectiveness in promoting retention and adherence of such women in clinical trials.

TL;DR: The present study examined the role of religiosity in functioning among African Americans and Whites with a cancer diagnosis and found a mixed role of religious involvement in cancer outcomes.

TL;DR: The authors determined the HRQOL classes that exist among lung cancer survivors, examined transitions among those classes over time, and compared survival outcomes of patients according to the classes present in the initial phase of care.