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Race and disparities in health.
Otis W. Brawley,Ashesh B. Jani +1 more
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This article is published in Current Problems in Cancer.The article was published on 2007-05-01. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Race and health & Health equity.read more
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Prostate cancer epidemiology in the United States
TL;DR: While prostate cancer remains largely a disease diagnosed in older men (over age 65), screening has increased risk of diagnosis among men in their 40s and 50s, and outcome studies suggest that many men who are diagnosed with “localized early stage disease” actually have “apparently localizedEarly stage disease,” which is really low volume metastatic disease.
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Trends in Prostate Cancer in the United States
TL;DR: Outcomes studies among men treated with radical prostatectomy show that greater than 30% serum prostate-specific antigen relapse rates are common, which suggests that many men who are diagnosed with "localized early stage disease" actually have "apparently localizedEarly stage disease," which is really low-volume metastatic disease.
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Integration of racial, cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic factors into a gastrointestinal pathophysiology course.
Helen M. Shields,Helen M. Shields,Daniel A. Leffler,Daniel A. Leffler,Augustus A. White,Janet P. Hafler,Stephen R. Pelletier,Richard P. O'Farrell,Richard P. O'Farrell,Roxana Llerena–Quinn,Jane N. Hayward,Sheila Salamone,Andrea M. Lenco,Paola G. Blanco,Paola G. Blanco,Antoinette S. Peters +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, a 1-hour faculty development session focused on showing the relevance of racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic factors to gastrointestinal diseases, and encouraged tutors to take an active and pivotal role in discussion of these factors.
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Science Surveillance and the Politics of Redress in Health Disparities Research
TL;DR: The outgrowth of an ongoing empirical study of funding policy and practice in a federal health science agency, this paper draws upon critical approaches to public health to problematize "health disparities" as mentioned in this paper.
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All Marked-Up in the Genetic Era: Race and Ethnicity as “Floating Signifiers” in Genetic and Genomic Research
Latrica E. Best,W. Carson Byrd +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined articles that use race/ethnicity and genetic or biological markers between 2000 and 2013 within three prominent genetic journals and found that a significant percentage of publications base their research on whites only.
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Lynn A. G. Ries,D. Harkins,Martin Krapcho,Angela B. Mariotto,Barry A. Miller,Eric J. Feuer,Limin X. Clegg,M. P. Eisner,Marie-Josèphe Horner,Nadia Howlader,Matthew J. Hayat,Benjamin F. Hankey,Brenda K. Edwards +12 more
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Cancer disparities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status
Elizabeth Ward,Ahmedin Jemal,Vilma Cokkinides,Gopal K. Singh,Cheryll J. Cardinez,Asma Ghafoor,Michael J. Thun +6 more
TL;DR: Differences in cancer incidence, mortality, and survival in relation to race/ethnicity, and census data on poverty in the county or census tract of residence are highlighted.
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Studies of Japanese Migrants. I. Mortality From Cancer and Other Diseases Among Japanese in the United States
William Haenszel,Minoru Kurihara +1 more
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Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2002, Featuring Population-Based Trends in Cancer Treatment
Brenda K. Edwards,Martin L. Brown,Phyllis A. Wingo,Holly L. Howe,Elizabeth Ward,Lynn A. G. Ries,Deborah Schrag,Patricia M. Jamison,Ahmedin Jemal,Xiao-Cheng Wu,Xiao-Cheng Wu,Carol Friedman,Linda C. Harlan,Joan L. Warren,Robert N. Anderson,Linda Williams Pickle +15 more
TL;DR: Cancer death rates for all cancer sites combined and for many common cancers have declined at the same time as the dissemination of guideline-based treatment into the community has increased, although this progress is not shared equally across all racial and ethnic populations.