[{"id": "chd-102", "words": "4665", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Oladoyinbo, Catherine Adebukola; Akinbule, Oluwafunke Opeyemi; Bolajoko, Opeyemi Oreoluwa; Aheto, Justice Moses; Faruk, Mohammed; Bassey, Iya Eze; Odedina, Folakemi; Ogunlana, Olubanke Olujoke; Ogunsanya, Motolani; Suleiman, Aishatu Maude; Obialor, Stanley; Gali, Rebecca", "title": "Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer in West African Men: The Prostate Cancer Transatlantic Consortium (CaPTC) Cohort Study", "date": "2019", "keywords": "alcohol; cancer; cap; et al; factors; knowledge; men; nigeria; number; prostate; prostate cancer; respondents; risk; status; study", "summary": "The burden of CaP is projected to rise, with over 75 million prevalent cases, 27 million incident cases and 17 million cancer deaths globally by 2030 (Parkin et al, 2003; Ferlay et al, 2010). The higher incidence and prevalence of CaP in Black African and African American compared to other races in the world has increased rate of morbidity and mortality among these populations (Odedina et al, 2006; Delongchamps et al, 2007; Odedina et al, 2009; Akinremi et al, 2010; Rebbeck et al, 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-104", "words": "8141", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Wright, Nikita; Bhattarai, Shristi; Sahoo, Bikram; Syed, Mishaal Imaan; Rida, Padmashree; Aneja, Ritu", "title": "Notch Signaling Pathway: An Emerging Therapeutic Target for African-American Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients", "date": "2019", "keywords": "african; breast; breast cancer; cancer; cell; development; disparities; et al; expression; factor; health; notch; pathway; patients; process; protein; receptor; regulation; research; response; signaling; tnbc; tumor; women; www.companyofscientists.com/index.php/chd", "summary": "We observed upregulation of the Notch signaling pathway among AA compared to EA TNBC samples as well as significant upregulation of genes encoding key Notch signaling proteins in this pathway such as NRARP, DNER, JAG1, JAG2, HES4, and MMP9. Moreover, Rizzo et al. observed sensitivity of TNBC cells to Notch inhibitors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-105", "words": "6708", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Martinez Tyson, Dinorah; Sommariva, Silvia; Walsh-Felz, Aria; Sherry, Peggie; Sandberg, Joanne", "title": "Exploring the Employment Challenges and Concerns of Minority Women Cancer Survivors", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cancer; cancer survivors; diagnosis; employer; employment; health; insurance; job; participants; study; survivors; treatment; women; work", "summary": "While literature exists on the work-related outcomes among women cancer survivors in general (Mehnert, de Boer, & Feuerstein, 2013), research that examines the work outcomes (employment status) for racial and ethnic minority women is limited (Blinder et al.. 2012; Our findings delineate how work environment, type of occupation and job-related concerns contribute to shape the work experience of women cancer survivors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-107", "words": "6418", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ogunsanya, Motolani", "title": "Predictors of Prostate Cancer Risk-Reduction Behaviours Among US BLACK Males Less Than 40 Years Old", "date": "2019", "keywords": "behaviors; cancer; cap; capb; et al; factors; health; knowledge; men; participants; prostate; prostate cancer; reduction; risk; study", "summary": "Cancer Health Disparities 4: e1-e14. Adolescents\u2019 awareness of cancer risk factors and associations with health-related behaviours.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-108", "words": "6733", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Kaninjing, Ernie T; Dagne, Getachew; Atawodi, Sunday E.; Alabi, Adewumi", "title": "Modifiable Risk Factors Implicated in Prostate Cancer Mortality and Morbidity Among West African Men", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cameroon; cancer; cap; diet; factors; health; knowledge; men; nigeria; participants; prostate; prostate cancer; research; study; university", "summary": "Prostate cancer health and cultural beliefs of black men: The Florida Prostate Cancer Disparity Project. Some of the modifiable risk factors for prostate cancer include knowledge and attitudes about the disease, the belief system of individuals and their diet.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-109", "words": "3140", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Fatiregun, Omolara Amina; Sowunmi, Anthonia Chima; Omonisi, Abidemi Emmanuel", "title": "Prostate Cancer in Nigeria: An Overview", "date": "2021", "keywords": "cancer; evidence; lagos; levels; nigeria; prostate; research; studies; university", "summary": "This review was undertaken to assess the levels of evidence on prostate cancer research in Nigeria. Prostate cancer research is currently at low levels of evidence in Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-110", "words": "3140", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Fatiregun, Omolara Amina; Chinegwundoh, Frank; James, Nicholas D; Ikuerowo, Odunayo; Omisanjo, Olufunmilayo; Abolarinwa, Abimbola; Sowunmi, Anthonia Chima; Buraimoh, Funlayo; Odedina, Folakemi", "title": "Quality of Evidence on Prostate Cancer in Nigeria", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cancer; evidence; lagos; levels; nigeria; prostate; research; studies; university", "summary": "This review was undertaken to assess the levels of evidence on prostate cancer research in Nigeria. Prostate cancer research is currently at low levels of evidence in Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-111", "words": "3328", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Caron, Nadine; Linn, Kevin; Johnson, Harmony; Spinelli, John", "title": "Improving First Nations Cancer Journeys: Current Policy Perspectives and Approaches in British Columbia, Canada", "date": "2019", "keywords": "canada; cancer; care; health; nations; people; services", "summary": "In British Columbia, efforts to improve First Nations cancer outcomes and experiences are now formalized through an Indigenous Cancer Strategy that incorporates BC First Nations perspectives on health and wellness. Recognizing all components of the circle and the interconnectedness of the physical, emotional, spiritual and mental dimensions and determinants of First Nations health and wellbeing is a starting point towards improving quality and addressing disparities in cancer care www.companyofscientists.com/index.php/chd e3 Cancer Health Disparities Commentry between First Nations and non-First Nations people in the province.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-112", "words": "7682", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ogunsanya, Motolani", "title": "Perceived Behavioral Control regarding Prostate Cancer Screening among Black Men in West Africa and the United States", "date": "2019", "keywords": "behavior; cancer health; cancer screening; et al; factors; health; knowledge; men; odedina; participants; pbc; prostate cancer; research; scores; screening; study", "summary": "Prostate cancer, young Black men, theoretical model, prevention, screening, health disparity Citation: Ogunsanya et al (2019) Perceived behavioral control regarding prostate cancer screening among Black Men in West Africa and the United States. 1 - Knowledge of prostate cancer and screening The 20 items on the knowledge scale assessed knowledge about prostate cancer and prostate cancer screening using a \u201ctrue,\u201d \u201cfalse,\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t know\u201d scale.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-114", "words": "3047", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Nowakowski, Katherine E.; Bothwell, Eric; Herne, Mose; Nolan, Leo; Pacyna, Joel E.; Petersen, Wesley; Tilburt, Jon", "title": "Is Men\u2019s Health a Priority for Tribal Health Directors? Results From a Survey Study", "date": "2018", "keywords": "disparities; gender; health; indian; men; research; survey", "summary": "Respondents were asked to choose five health issues of greatest priority for their constituencies, estimate their capacity for research involvement, and gauge the importance of gender-tailored health programs in addressing health priorities identified. Gender tailoring of high priority health issues may be a strategy to achieve those overarching health priorities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-116", "words": "6704", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Faruk, Mohammed", "title": "Cortisol and Health-Related Quality of Life as Prognostic Indicators for Prostate Cancer Risk in West African Black Men in Nigeria, Cameroon and the USA: The CaPTC Cohort Study", "date": "2019", "keywords": "african; cancer; cancer health; cap; cells; cortisol; days; expression; health; men; nigeria; participants; prostate; prostate cancer; research; sciences; stress; study; university", "summary": "The lack of differences in the HRQoL indicators between the groups may be associated to the small number of CaP participants (N=40) as compared to CaP-free participants (N=460) recruited in this study. Cancer Health Disparities 4: e1-17.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-117", "words": "5221", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Smith, Alana; Cropp, Cheryl D; Vidal, Gregory; Pritchard, Elizabeth; Cordero, Jennifer B; Simpson, Claire; Starlard-Davenport, Athena", "title": "Prevalence of the UGT1A1*28 Promoter Polymorphism and Breast Cancer Risk Among African American Women in Memphis, TN", "date": "2019", "keywords": "breast; breast cancer; cancer; cases; controls; et al; polymorphism; risk; study; ugt1a1; women", "summary": "However, further analysis of UGT1A1 mRNA expression in the TCGA database between AA breast cancers and non-Hispanic white breast cancer cases showed that UGT1A1 expression was downregulated in breast cancers and was lower among AA breast cancers compared to non- Hispanic white breast cancer cases, especially among ER negative breast tumors from AA women. DISCUSSION www.companyofscientists.com/index.php/chd e8 Cancer Health Disparities RESEARCH In the present study, we investigated the associations between the UGT1A1*28 TA repeat polymorphism located in the promoter region of UGT1A1 among AA breast cancer cases and healthy AA women volunteers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-118", "words": "3988", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Bassey, Iya Eze; Ugbem, Theophilus I. I; Akpan, Uwem Okon; Anyanwu, Stanley; Glen, Enakirerhi E.; Gali, Rebecca M.; Oladoyinbo, Catherine; Omonisi, Abidemi; Dagne, Getachew; Kaninjing, Ernest T.; Askins, Nissa A.; Ogunsanya, Motolani E.; Faruk, Mohammed; Idowu, Ademola A.; Odedina, Folakemi T.", "title": "Overcoming Barriers in Conducting a Transatlantic Prostate Cancer Familial Study in Africa: Best Practice from the CaPTC Cohort Study", "date": "2021", "keywords": "cancer; community; data; health; men; participants; prostate; research; study; university", "summary": "Study participants were Black men of Nigerian or Cameroonian origin who lived in Nigeria, Cameroon, or the US. Therefore, for future studies with similar aims to succeed, the data collectors might consider being more flexible about the place and time of data collection and personal interviews.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-120", "words": "3585", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Emiogun, Edobor Festus; Williams, Oluseun; Obafunwa, John Oladapo", "title": "Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer in NIGERIA: Observations at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital", "date": "2019", "keywords": "age; cancer; et al; gleason; grade; lagos; prostate; study; years", "summary": "The objective of the study is to examine records of prostate cancers diagnosed at Mayo Height laboratory, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria between January 2015 and June 2018, with a view to studying the epidemiological variables and pattern seen. A total of 333 cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed during the study period, representing 46.4% of all prostate specimens received.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-122", "words": "4032", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Ashing, Kimlin; Serrano, Mayra; Garcia, Marisela; Nerio, Katty; Fernandez, Alejandro; Martinez, Margaret; Singhal, Rita; Ward, Andrette; Robinson, Aneesah; Tinsley, Karen; Ragin, Camille; Nunez-smith, Marcella; Perkins, Rebecca; Antoine, Gerard", "title": "HPV Vaccination Strategies in Immigrant Dense Communities", "date": "2021", "keywords": "cancer; clinic; communities; community; et al; health; hpvv; immigrant; parents; providers; vaccination; vaccine", "summary": "Providers, in particular, emphasized examining the provider cultural continuance relevant to HPVV clinical encounter and provider-patient relationship, as well as ongoing provider education and communication for increased HPVV among immigrant providers. All parents underscored the centrality of the provider role as they reported that most immigrants and immigrant communities are served by immigrant providers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-125", "words": "231", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Kaur, Judith S", "title": "Introduction to Special Issue on Cancer Health Disparities in Native Americans", "date": "2018", "keywords": "cancer", "summary": "www.companyofscientists.com/index.php/chd e1 Cancer Health Disparities Commentry Introduction to Special Issue on Cancer Health Disparities in Native Americans I am very pleased to serve as the Guest Editor for this special edition of Cancer Health Disparities focussing on American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) populations. Judith Salmon Kaur Citation: Kaur J.S (2018) Introduction to Special Issue on Cancer Health Disparities in Native Americans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-127", "words": "4441", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Orsak, Gabriela; Allen, Carlton M; Miller, Anastasia; Singh, Karan P.; McGaha, Paul", "title": "Colorectal Cancer Education and Screening Program For The Un- or Under- Insured In A Primarily Rural Setting in Northeast Texas: Design and Methods", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cancer; colonoscopy; crc; data; education; fit; health; individuals; program; screening; texas", "summary": "1.2 CRC screening methods Two common methods for CRC screening are colonoscopy and the fecal immunochemical test (FIT). Our strategy involved reaching out to individuals to make them aware of the need to undergo CRC screening, educating them about their screening options, performing the screening methodology of choice (FIT or colonoscopy), providing access to treatment for CRC, and providing follow-up.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-13", "words": "357", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "21", "author": "Singh, Keshav K", "title": "Editorial", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cancer", "summary": "Cancer Health Disparities would provide a common dedicated platform to clinicians, epidemiologists, population and prevention scientists, molecular biologists, physician scientists and others for publishing multidisciplinary research on cancer disparities that would accelerate research in this important field. These observations make cancer health disparities research an important field of investigation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-130", "words": "13427", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kashyap, Madhuri; Garcia, Claudia P; Leal, Ana L; Mittal, Balraj; Singh, Mahendra K.", "title": "A Genetic Roadmap of Gallbladder Cancer Disparities: A Potential for Development of Targeted Therapies: Gallbladder cancer: from genetics to targeted therapies.", "date": "2020", "keywords": "associated; cancer; carcinoma; disease; disparities; egfr; et al; expression; gallbladder; gallbladder cancer; gbc; gene; india; mutations; patients; ras; research; risk; role; studies; study; tumor", "summary": "There was an overexpression of the ErbB-2 and the EGFR genes in 15.7 and 8.1% of GBC cases with GBC gene amplification of 79%. This identification of somatic mutation framework of GBC was done in a systematic manner, discovering GBC driver genes in the C>T/G>A transition along with studying a pathway centered around ErbB signaling.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-131", "words": "4915", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ashing, Kimlin; Ragin, Camille; Etim, Ndifreke", "title": "Increasing Pap Testing Uptake and HPVV Knowledge and Acceptability among Black Women", "date": "2021", "keywords": "acceptability; cancer; health; hpv; hpvv; intervention; knowledge; pap; participants; test; women", "summary": "Other strategies that have proved efficacious in increasing Pap test uptake and knowledge and acceptability of HPVV among minorities include access-enhancing programs, community interventions, approaches directed at individuals, culturally and ethnically tailored materials, and mass media campaigns (Chan et al., 2015; Han et al., 2011). HPV vaccine knowledge was examined using two questions that examined participants\u2019 knowledge of ever hearing of HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer and knowledge that you can get HPV through sexual contact.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-132", "words": "5960", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Bae, Sejong; Park, HyounKyoung G; Wang, Zhixin E; Wang, Chenguang; Huh, Warner K", "title": "Cervical Cancer Outcome by Type of Health Care Facilities: National Cancer Database, 2004-2015", "date": "2020", "keywords": "arps; cancer; facility; health; outcomes; programs; surgery; treatment; women", "summary": "Wang1,4, Chenguang Wang2, Warner K. Huh3,4, Sejong Bae1,4 1Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 2Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 3Division of Gynecology Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 4O\u2019Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL ABSTRACT The National Cancer Database from 2004 to 2015 was analyzed to identify cervical cancer outcomes associated with demographic and clinical characteristics measured by types of facility. Cervical cancer outcome by type of health care facilities: National Cancer Database, 2004-2015; Cancer Health Disparities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-137", "words": "1909", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ogunwobi, Olorunseun O; Ma, Grace X", "title": "SPEECH: Synergistic Partnership for Enhancing Equity in Cancer Health", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cancer; disease; disparities; health; population; research", "summary": "The Synergistic Partnership for Enhancing Equity in Cancer Health (SPEECH) was established to focus on research, workforce development and community-based activities relevant to cancer health disparities in the Philadelphia-New Jersey-New York City (PNN) corridor. SPEECH's overarching goal is to impact cancer health disparities through research and training, and by improving community health, cancer awareness, and access to good quality healthcare.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-140", "words": "8171", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Odedina, Folakemi T.; Ragin, Camille; Martin, Damali; Moser, Richard P; Oliver, JoAnn; McDonald, Alicia C; Rice, Elice L; Nguyen, Jennifer; Chinegwundoh, Frank; Morrinson, Belinda; Kaninjing, Ernest; Jalloh, Mohammed; Reams, Renee", "title": "Standardized Global Behavioral and Epidemiological Measures for Prostate Cancer Studies in Black Men", "date": "2019", "keywords": "ac3; african; cabe; cancer; cancer health; captc; consensus; cwg; data; disparities; et al; group; health; journal; measures; men; odedina; participants; prostate cancer; research", "summary": "In 2014, two cancer epidemiology consortia supported by the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Prostate Cancer Transatlantic Consortium (CaPTC) and African-Caribbean Cancer Consortium (AC3), formed a consortia alliance to address the disproportionate burden of prostate cancer in Black men. doi:10.9777/chd.2019.1014 mailto:Fodedina@cop.ufl.edu www.companyofscientists.com/index.php/chd e2 Cancer Health Disparities RESEARCH INTRODUCTION Globally, prostate cancer is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer in men and the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths among men (Ferlay et al., 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-142", "words": "2081", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "25", "author": "O'Brian, Catherine; Fitzgibbon, Marian; Ciecierski, Christina; Filus, Lidia; Feinglass, Joseph; Winn, Robert ; Simon, Melissa", "title": "Architecture of the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative \u2013 A Partnership Delivering Transformative Cancer Health Equity Research, Education and Community Engagement", "date": "2020", "keywords": "cancer; cancer health; chicago; chicagochec; community; health; university", "summary": "KEYWORDS: cancer health equity; cancer health disparities; In brief, the Research Education Core functions to build a pipeline of summer student fellows focused on reducing and eliminating cancer health disparities; the Community Engagement Core serves to enhance community engagement, cancer education, and survivorship support, and helps to build the research capacity of our community partners; the Planning and Evaluation Core initiates and monitors new and ongoing projects, monitors the progress of our Early Stage Investigators (ESIs), and evaluates ChicagoCHEC\u2019s progress toward realizing the goals of its mission; and the Administrative Core provides the overall leadership, administrative management, and program coordination of ChicagoCHEC.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-148", "words": "4941", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Singh, Rajesh; Singh, Santosh", "title": "Liver cancer incidence and mortality: Disparities based on age, ethnicity, health and nutrition, molecular factors, and geography", "date": "2020", "keywords": "cancer; carcinoma; disparities; et al; factors; hcc; health; incidence; lca; liver; mortality; patients; risk", "summary": "Diabetes mellitus and liver cancer risk: an evaluation based on a systematic review of epidemiologic evidence among the Japanese population. Vegetable-based dietary pattern and liver cancer risk: results from the Shanghai women's and men's health studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-153", "words": "3184", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Isela De La Cerda; Lee, Miryoung ; Schmeler, Kathleen M.; McCormick, Joseph B. ; Fisher-Hoch, Susan P ", "title": "Hysterectomy-corrected Cervical Cancer Incidence Reveal Larger Racial Disparities in Texas 2012-2014", "date": "2021", "keywords": "age; cancer; hispanic; hysterectomy; incidence; prevalence; women", "summary": "The type of hysterectomy will determine whether a woman should be removed from the denominator for estimation of cervical cancer rate, as not all hysterectomies include the removal of the cervix (supracervical hysterectomy). Cervical cancer incidence after correction increased for all races but had the highest impact on NH white women with an increase of 17.1% compared to 4.1% and 3.6% for Hispanics and NH blacks respectively.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-155", "words": "8790", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Iczkowski, Kenneth; Kravtsov, Oleksandr ; Sadasivan, Sudha Sadasivan; Palangmonthip, Watchareepohn; Chen, Yalei; Lucia, M Scott; Lambert, James R ; Torkko, Kathleen C; Rybick, Benjamin A ", "title": "Racial Disparities in Expression of GDF15 and NF\u03baB in Prostate Cancer and Benign Prostatic Epithelium", "date": "2021", "keywords": "american; benign; cancer; disparities; expression; gdf15; grade; median; men; nf\u03bab; prostate; range; stage; tumor", "summary": "The current study shows a newly-described, significant stagewise decline in GDF15 expression in prostate tumors of African-American (AA) men not observed in European American (EA) men, and a grade-proportional rise of NF\u03baB expression in AA tumors. PC, compared to benign epithelium, had elevated median GDF15 expression (1.93 vs. 0.99) and also, NF\u03baB (1.18 vs. 0.96, both P<0.0001).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-164", "words": "2529", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Gachupin, Francine C. ; Ingram, Jani C.; Laurila, Kelly A. ; Lluria-Prevatt, Maria C. ; Teufel-Shone, Nicolette I. ; Briehl, Margaret M. ", "title": "NACP: Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention", "date": "2021", "keywords": "american; arizona; cancer; disparities; health; nacp; national; native; research", "summary": "The CPACHE goals are: 1) to increase the participation of underrepresented minority-serving institutions in cancer research and research training, and 2) to increase the involvement and effectiveness of comprehensive cancer centers in developing effective outreach, research, and education programs that encourage diversity among competitive researchers and reduce cancer health disparities. Arizona Cancer Registry data shows that breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer among Native American women and is responsible for the highest number of deaths compared to other cancers (Timothy Flood, personal communication).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-169", "words": "17937", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Woods-Burnham, Leanne ; Stiel, Laura ; Martinez, Shannalee R. ; Evelyn S. Sanchez-Hernandez; Ruckle, Herbert C. ; Almaguel, Frankis G. ; Stern, Mariana C.; Roberts, Lisa R. ; Williams, David R. ; Montgomery, Susanne ; Casiano, Carlos A. ", "title": "Psychosocial Stress, Glucocorticoid Signaling, and Prostate Cancer Health Disparities in African American Men", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aas; african; american; androgen; binding; cancer; cancer health; cell; cortisol; disparities; dna; et al; expression; genes; glucocorticoid; health; levels; men; patients; pca; prostate; prostate cancer; receptor; research; resistance; risk; signaling; stress; study; survival; therapy; treatment; tumor; www.companyofscientists.com/index.php/chd", "summary": "GR has recently emerged as a major driver of PCa progression and resistance to AR-signaling inhibitor (ARSI) therapy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy (Arora et al., 2013; Beer et al., 2017; Chen et al., 2019; Claessens et al., 2017; Kroon et al., 2016; Li et al., 2017; Montgomery et al., 2014; Narayanan et al., 2016; Puhr et al., 2018; Sartor et al., 2014). While anti-androgen therapy is highly effective in producing an initial period of PCa regression, mCRPC eventually develops for many patients, characterized by rapidly rising PSA levels, even though circulating testosterone levels are in the typical castration range (<50 ng/dl) (Chen et al., 2004; Feldman and Feldman, 2001; Lamont and Tindall, 2011; Schrecengost and Knudsen, 2013; Sharifi, 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-175", "words": "3852", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Behar-Horenstein, Linda; Warren, Rueben ; Setiawan, V. Wendy ; Perkins, Corey; Schmittgen, Thomas D.", "title": "Enhancing African American Participation in Biospecimens: A Case in Point for Pancreatic Cancer", "date": "2021", "keywords": "african; american; biospecimens; cancer; community; donation; et al; health; pancreas; research", "summary": "The Cancer Genome Alas (TCGA) database contains only 3.6% of African American pancreatic cancers compared to 90% for Non-Hispanic Whites (Table 1). INTRODUCTION Representation of African American biospecimens for diseases of the pancreas Health disparities research on pancreas transdifferentiation Historical/Cultural Issues Underrepresentation of African Americans in Biospecimens Increasing Procurement CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTUS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures) Authors' contributions", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-179", "words": "4915", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Behar-Horenstein, Linda; Powell-Roach, Keesha ; Booker, Staja Q. ; Maduka, Michael U; Gordon, Destiny ; Jacobs, Kayanna ; Lyon, Debra", "title": "Intersection of COVID-19, Cancer, and Racial Health Disparities ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; americans; april; cancer; care; covid-19; disparities; health; pain; pandemic; patients; risk; states; treatment", "summary": "Using extant literature and contemporaneous data, they point out how overlooking the intersections of this triad could lead to the exacerbation of existing disparities for cancer patients based on race and ethnicity. The distraction effect for cancer patients may lead to diverting the attention exclusively to the COVID-19 situation and overshadowing the everyday clinical practice may have substantial negative implications, especially for cancer patients.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-192", "words": "1383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Warnecke, Brian; Thompson, Ian; Karnad, Anand", "title": "What Do We Want? Increased Hispanic Accrual on Cancer Clinical Trials! When Do We Want It? Now!", "date": "2022", "keywords": "cancer; health; hispanic; trials", "summary": "In this manuscript, we highlight the disproportionately low rates of Hispanic accrual in cancer clinical trials and propose processes that will increase representation. We have previously highlighted the poor Hispanic accrual rate of 3.9% in cancer clinical trials published in 2012 and raised an alarm urging actions to increase Hispanic accrual (Parra et al., 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-200", "words": "2723", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Nakayama, John ; Cioffi, Gino; Iyer, Sharanya; Kyasaram, Ravi; Shanahan, John; Caimi, Paolo; Waite, Kristin; Sellers, Thomas; Barnholtz-Sloan, Jill", "title": "Race is Related with Increased COVID-19 Infection and Outcomes in Oncology Patients", "date": "2022", "keywords": "cancer; cleveland; covid19; diagnosis; oncology; patients; system", "summary": "Given these realities and the racially diverse population of the University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center (UHSCC), we investigated the dynamics of COVID19 infection in oncology patients in order to: (1) determine the demographic differences between cancer patients infected with COVID19 versus COVID19 infected patients without a cancer history, (2) compare the outcomes of cancer patients infected with COVID19 to patients without cancer who are infected with COVID19, and (3) compare characteristics and outcomes of cancer patients infected with COVID19 to cancer patients without COVID19 diagnosis. Race, n (%)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-204", "words": "3816", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Vargas, Matthew; Matthew, Olayemi; Jackson, Deloria; Austin, Tifini; Tawk, Rima; Wallace, Kristin; Gwede, Clement; Luque, John S", "title": "Adaptation of a Community Health Advisor Intervention to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening Among African Americans in the Southern United States", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; americans; cancer; cha; colorectal; community; crc; disparities; health; intervention; research; screening", "summary": "Improved adherence to recommended health practices is a recognized benefit of CHA services and several reviews of CHA CRC screening interventions have shown a positive effect on receipt of screening (Naylor et al., 2012; Rawl et al., 2012). According to the NCI, the aim is to increase CRC screening rates among men and women ages 50 and older from racially and ethnically diverse communities and in rural areas (National Cancer Institute, 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-206", "words": "6891", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Krishnan, Nandita; Abroms, Lorien; Robien, Kim; Le, Daisy; Yang, Tony; Aduli, Farshad", "title": "Characteristics of Incident Liver Cancer Cases in the District of Columbia Metropolitan Area", "date": "2022", "keywords": "cancer; cases; d.c; hcc; health; hispanic; icc; incidence; liver; liver cancer; use", "summary": "While there are several hypotheses for the high incidence of liver cancer in D.C., little is definitively known about the populations experiencing the burden of liver cancer, as well as factors that could account for these differences in liver cancer incidence rates between D.C. and its neighboring states, and the clinical and behavioral risk factors driving liver cancer incidence in the D.C. metropolitan area. Aflatoxin and viral hepatitis exposures in Guatemala: Molecular biomarkers reveal a unique profile of risk factors in a region of high liver cancer incidence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-207", "words": "4749", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Holguin, Daniel", "title": "The Association Between Racial Segregation and Racial Disparities in Clinical Trial Accrual at an NCI Cancer Center", "date": "2022", "keywords": "accrual; area; black; cancer; catchment; disparities; drive; health; minority; patients; research; sci; trial; white", "summary": "Similarly, the SCI implemented a shuttle program to Palo Alto for clinical trial patients in East Bay, though this paper suggests these efforts were also met with limited results. This paper analyzes gastrointestinal cancer clinical trial patient accrual at the Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI) between 2012- 2020 by ethnicity and trial type and compares drive times to the SCI between patients of different ethnicities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-208", "words": "1489", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Shanker, Anil", "title": "Advancing Health Equity and Biomedical Researcher Diversity: A New AIM-AHEAD Consortium", "date": "2022", "keywords": "data; disparities; diversity; health; research", "summary": "This may include facilitating the extraction and transformation of data from EHR, image data, social determinants of health data, and more to develop AI/ML algorithms for application to health equity research. This two-year planning, assessment and capacity building program will be led by the AIM-AHEAD Coordinating Center comprised of a consortium of institutions and organizations that have a mission to serve minorities and underrepresented or underserved communities impacted by health disparities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-210", "words": "3892", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Anand, Shashi; Vikramdeo, Kunwar Somesh; Singh, Seema ; Singh, Ajay Pratap; Dasgupta, Santanu ", "title": "Racial Disparities in the Genetic Landscape of Lung Cancer", "date": "2022", "keywords": "cancer; disparities; doi; egfr; gene; health; lung; lung cancer; mutations; patients", "summary": "More information about genetic mutations between CA and AA lung cancer patients is provided in Table 1. EGFR gene mutations predominantly occur www.companyofscientists.com/index.php/chd e3 Cancer Health Disparities RESEARCH among non-smoker patients with adenocarcinoma histology, whereas KRAS mutations are common among smokers with squamous cell carcinoma histology", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-212", "words": "4454", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Yallapu, Murali; Teniente, Jorge ; Tsin, Andrew; Chauhan, Subhash", "title": "Highlights from First International Conference on Cancer Health Disparities ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "cancer; cancer health; conference; disparities; disparity; health; health disparities; medicine; professor; research; school; session; som; university; utrgv", "summary": "He also shared his thoughts on how these findings may offer new opportunities in health disparity cancer research. The conference was comprised of six sessions: Session 1: Introduction to the conference and tackling cancer health disparities; Session 2: Elimination of cancer health disparities; Session 3: Cancer cellular and molecular biology; Session 4: Diversity and Inclusion in cancer research: Session 5:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-214", "words": "7740", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Goswami, Sandeep; Sarkar, Chandrani; Singh, Seema; Singh, Ajay Pratap; Chakroborty, Debanjan", "title": "Racial differences in prostate tumor microenvironment: implications for disparate clinical outcomes and potential opportunities ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "aa pca; american; cancer; cells; men; patients; pca; progression; prostate; prostate cancer; tme; tumor", "summary": "A bispecific diabody directed against prostate- specific membrane antigen and CD3 induces T-cell mediated lysis of prostate cancer cells. MiR-206 inhibits proliferation and migration of prostate cancer cells by targeting CXCL11.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-215", "words": "9764", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Villalona, Seiichi; Sukhdeo, Simone; Reinoso, Daisy; Stroup, Antoinette; Ferrante, Jeanne M.", "title": "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in HPV-associated Anogenital Cancers Among Males in the United States: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study", "date": "2022", "keywords": "black; cancer; diagnosis; disparities; et al; health; hpv; insurance; latino; males; mortality; penile; stage; survival; white", "summary": "For anorectal cancer, the only significant finding was that NH Other males aged 65 years and older were observed to have over 3 times higher odds of late- stage diagnosis (aOR 3.01, 95% CI 1.50-6.02) relative to NH White males in the same age group (results not shown). For example, NH Other males were found to have similar odds of late-stage diagnosis and risks of mortality from penile cancers relative to NH White males.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-217", "words": "3716", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Adewunmi, Mary; Kumar Sharma, Saksham; Sharma, Nistha; Sushma, N Sudha; Mounmo , Bayangmbe", "title": "Cancer Health Disparities Drivers with BERTopic Modelling and Pycaret Evaluation", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bertopic; cancer; cancer health; coherence; disparities; figure; health; modelling; pycaret; research; score; topic; word", "summary": "The model classifies each Subject Word score based on the scores, the granular topic concerns, and trends related to cancer health disparities, investigates the connection between drivers of cancer health disparities, and evaluates the model with their coherence score values. Cancer health disparity, BERTopic, c-TF-IDF, PyCaret.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-219", "words": "5213", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "C Brady, Kiley; Claudia P Stephens; Sarabjeet Kour Sudan; Ajay Pratap Singh; Santanu Dasgupta; Seema Singh", "title": "Breast and Cervical Cancer Disparities in Alabama: Current Scenario, Ongoing Efforts to Reduce the Disparity Gaps, and What More We Could be Doing", "date": "2022", "keywords": "alabama; breast; cancer; disparities; health; incidence; mortality; state; white; women", "summary": "Schematic diagram showing different factors involved in cancer health disparities in Alabama. CLOSING THE DISPARITY GAPS: Implementation hurdles and awareness issues: Despite medical advances and recognition of cancer health disparities, multiple hurdles restrict the efforts targeted at reducing the existing disparities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-221", "words": "6123", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Sharma, Devendra; Someshwar, Saloni; Kour, Bhumandeep; Shukla, Nidhi; Khilwani, Barkha; Vijay, Maneesh; Gupta, Ayam; Ansari, Abdul; Vuree, Sugunakar; Kumar, Ashok ; Singh, Saurabh; Ravi, Amrit; Mathur, Praveen ; Mishra, Ashwani; Ramaswamy, Gopalakrishna; Suravajhala, Renuka ; Sadasukhi, Nripesh; Valadi, Jayaraman; Medicherla, KrishnaMohan; Kumar, Geetha; Nair, Bipin; Ecker, Rupert; Bissa, Bhawana; Sadasukhi, TC ; Mishra, Nandita; Mathiesen, Rune; Singh, Keshav K; Lohiya, Nirmal; Batra, Jyotsna ; Bandapalli, Obul Reddy; Suravajhala, Prashanth", "title": "The CAPCI Network: A CAncer Prostate Consortium of India for Conducting Next-Generation Genomic Sequencing Studies", "date": "2024", "keywords": "cancer; capci; cell; consortium; data; genome; health; human; india; lines; pca; prostate; prostate cancer; research; risk", "summary": "PCa resulting from different cell sources in the prostate lead to the development of a large number of PCa cell lines. PCa cell lines can be of two types i.e. androgen independent and androgen dependent.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-222", "words": "1408", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Patra, Satyajit; Modi, Shivani", "title": "Lack of Disparities in Pharmacogenomics", "date": "2024", "keywords": "disparities; health; pharmacogenomics; research; studies", "summary": "In subsequent pharmacogenomics studies, equity assessments should be employed to fill the information gap. There aren\u2019t many studies that look at how pharmacogenomics affects health disparities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-224", "words": "11814", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Rood, Kristiana; Laxa, Ria; Shields, Andrea; Kim, Hae-Soo; Khan, Salma", "title": "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Thyroid Cancer Stratified by Risk Factors: A Literature Review: Thyroid Cancer Health Disparities", "date": "2024", "keywords": "african; americans; cancer health; cancer incidence; differences; disparities; et al; european; factors; groups; health; health disparities; incidence; iodine; non; patients; prevalence; research; risk; states; studies; study; thyroid cancer; united; women", "summary": "Long-term trend of thyroid cancer risk among Japanese atomic-bomb survivors: 60 years after exposure. Thyroid cancer risks among medical radiation workers in South Korea, 1996-2015.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-226", "words": "6190", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Maosa, Steficah; Frerichs, Lisa; Schug, Zachary; Siegel, Scott; Sims Mourtada, Jennifer", "title": "Strong Tumor Expression of ALDH1A1 is Associated with Black Race, Metabolic Disorders, and Poor Breast Cancer Outcomes ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "aldh1a1; aldh1a1 expression; breast; breast cancer; cancer; cells; diabetes; et al; expression; patients; staining; stromal; tumor; women", "summary": "These findings indicate that ALDH1A1 is associated to disparities in breast cancer outcomes and provide the first link between tumor ALDH1A1 expression, obesity, and diabetes. Multivariate analysis revealed that advanced stage, hormone receptor negativity, and strong tumor ALDH1A1 expression were independently associated with worse survival outcomes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-23", "words": "6749", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ali, Hamdy EA; Gad, Shaimaa A; Deep, Gagan; Ali, Hamed I; Abd Elmageed, Zakaria Y.", "title": "Molecular Insights into the Role of Exosomes in Health Disparity of Prostate Cancer \u2003", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cancer; cancer cells; cells; disparities; et al; exosomal; exosomes; health; men; patients; pca; prostate; prostate cancer; protein; tumor", "summary": "Profiling of microRNAs in exosomes released from PC-3 prostate cancer cells. Our goal here is to illustrate the role of exosomes contributing to different biological activities, especially aggressive behavior of cancer cells and poor clinical outcomes of PCa in AA patients.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-235", "words": "4531", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Neblett, Debra; Williams, Wanda M.", "title": "Interventions Addressing Breast Cancer Mammography Screening Barriers in Non-Hispanic Black Women: An Integrative Review", "date": "2024", "keywords": "breast; cancer; et al; health; mammogram; screening; women", "summary": "The studies identified used various strategies to implement screening interventions in non-Hispanic Black women that were culturally tailored and considered social determinants of health, barriers to breast cancer screening, community engagement, and patient navigation. KEYWORDS: breast cancer screening, mammography, interventions, Black or African American, or non-Hispanic Black women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-40", "words": "2576", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Liu, Wei; Liu, Runhua; Wang, Lizhong", "title": "Androgen Metabolism Genes in Prostate Cancer Health Disparities", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cancer; disparities; prostate; prostate cancer", "summary": "As shown here, there was higher expression of UGT2B15 in AA prostate cancers compared with CA prostate cancers, supporting a function of UGT2B15 in racial disparities of prostate cancers. Although greater expression of CYP17A1 appears to correlate with higher stages and shorter relapse-free times in prostate cancer (Bremmer et al., 2014; Gomez et al., 2015; Salvi et al., 2016), expression of the CYP17A1 gene was lower in primary prostate cancers than in normal prostate tissue and was lower in AA prostate cancers than in CA prostate cancers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-41", "words": "7885", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Nash, Sarah H; Redwood, Diana G", "title": "Potentially Preventable Cancers Among Alaska Native People", "date": "2018", "keywords": "alaska; alcohol; cancer; cancer health; cancer risk; et al; factors; health; inactivity; native; obesity; par; people; prevention; risk; smoking; tobacco; use", "summary": "Data sources and definitions Prevalence of cancer risk factors among Alaska Native people was estimated using data from the Alaska Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS), collected by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. www.companyofscientists.com/index.php/chd e8 Cancer Health Disparities RESEARCH Statistical methods Prevalence estimates of cancer risk factors are given with 95% confidence intervals (CI), to account for the BRFSS sampling strategy and weighting.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-42", "words": "7003", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Ma, Grace X; Lee, Minsun; Beeber, Maayan; Das, Rina; Feng, Zideng; Wang, Min Qi; Tan, Yin; Zhu, Lin; Navder, Khursheed; Shireman, Theresa I; Siu, Philip; Rhee, Joanne; Nguyen, Minhhuyen T", "title": "Community-Clinical Linkage Intervention to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Underserved Korean Americans", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cancer; colonoscopy; control; crc; crc screening; fit; group; health; intervention; korean; participants; rates; screening", "summary": "In our previous study, we reported that a culturally and linguistically tailored church-based intervention combined with patient navigation assistance and physician engagement (including screening reminder, scheduling appointment, transportation assistance to clinic sites, navigation for screening, follow up care and medical record verification) was effective in increasing CRC screening rate. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a community-based multifaceted intervention designed to improve CRC screening among Korean Americans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-45", "words": "5338", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Cawley, Caroline Lisa; Mazereeuw, Maegan V; Jamal, Sehar; Sheppard, Amanda J; Marrett, Loraine D", "title": "Commercial Tobacco Exposure in First Nations, Inuit and M\u00e9tis in Ontario: Results from Population-Based Health Surveys and Implications for Cancer Control", "date": "2018", "keywords": "adults; canada; cancer; health; inuit; m\u00e9tis; nations; non; ontario; smoking", "summary": "Under federal legislation, First Nations people living on reserves (land held by the Crown for the \u201cuse and benefit of [First Nations] (Government of Canada, 1982)) are exempt from provincial laws, and create and enforce their own tobacco policies within their jurisdictions. The prevalence of second-hand smoke exposure among First Nations people living on-reserve could not be estimated, as relevant questions were not included in the RHS.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-47", "words": "3872", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Conway, Pat; Boeckel, Jennifer; Buckley, Colleen; Fetsch, Jodie; Gates, Margaret; Wilson, Danielle Myers; Tran, Jesse; Sayler, Joyce", "title": "Community Cancer Screening:Reducing Health Disparities among Native Americans in Rural, Tribal Communities", "date": "2018", "keywords": "cancer; community; days; factors; family; health; members; research; screening; women", "summary": "This intersectoral approach (Rantala, 2014) to community health screening included diverse partners: Custer Health, the local public health organization; Standing Rock Tribal Health; Indian Health Service (IHS); the North Dakota Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program; Avon Foundation; Susan G. Komen affiliates; North Dakota Department of Health (ND DoH); and the Great Plains Tribal Chairman\u2019s Health Board. Individual experience with cancer and other chronic diseases, family experience with cancer and family support, and friends and exposure to toxins in the community influenced participation in cancer screening.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-49", "words": "5808", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Roubidoux, Marilyn A", "title": "Breast Cancer Disparities Among American Indian Women", "date": "2018", "keywords": "age; american; breast; breast cancer; cancer; disparities; et al; health; indian; mammography; risk; screening; white; women; years", "summary": "(Pruthi et al., 2013) To effectively advise American Indian patients about breast cancer screening, individual risk needs to be determined because screening recommendations are based upon assessing a patient\u2019s risk for breast cancer (Expert Panel on Breast et al., 2017). Breast cancer screening among low-income or uninsured women: results from the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, July 1995 to March 2002 (United States).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-52", "words": "5139", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Sanderson, Priscilla R; Gene, Erelda; Scranton, Rebecca; Willeto, Angela A.A.; Joshweseoma, Lori; Hardy, Lisa J.", "title": "A Southwestern Tribal Perspective on Traditional and Commercial Tobacco", "date": "2018", "keywords": "american; health; men; participants; people; research; smoking; tobacco; tobacco use; use; women", "summary": "Women stated strong opposition to commercial tobacco use, though all participants discussed traditional tobacco as a vehicle for prayer interwoven within the foundation of tribal identity. Other participants also reflected on these beliefs throughout the focus groups in the discussions of the meaning and value of traditional tobacco use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-54", "words": "5008", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Wang, Zhixin; Dilley, Sarah; Park, HyounKyoung; Bartolucci, Alfred A; Wang, Chenguang; Huh, Warner K; Bae, Sejong", "title": "Regional Disparities in Ovarian Cancer in the United States", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cancer; disparities; nhb; region; south; stage; survival; us14; women", "summary": "The data confirmed regional disparities in ovarian cancer in the United States, showing women living in the South region were disadvantaged in ovarian cancer survival regardless of race, black or white. However, after controlling for access to quality care, socioeconomic status, cancer stage and treatment, there was no difference in ovarian cancer survival between black and white women (Collins et al., 2014), (Terplan et al., 2008).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-64", "words": "7595", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Kulkarni, Aishwarya; Stroup, Antoinette M.; Paddock, Lisa E.; Hill, Stephanie M.; Plascak, Jesse J.; Llanos, Adana A.M.", "title": "Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality by Molecular Subtype Statewide Age and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in New Jersey", "date": "2019", "keywords": "age; breast cancer; carcinoma; disparities; et al; her2; incidence; jersey; luminal; new; race; subtype; women; years", "summary": "Distributions of breast cancer subtypes among racially and ethnically diverse populations such as those residing in New Jersey, are important data for understanding cancer disparities and ultimately achieving health equity, particularly in terms of disseminating optimal treatment (Albain et al., 2009; Finally, we estimated relative risks for breast cancer diagnosis and death by breast cancer subtype.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-65", "words": "763", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Ward, Bill", "title": "First Strike: The Voice of a Prostate Cancer Survivor: The voice of a survivor", "date": "2018", "keywords": "cancer; prostate", "summary": "doi:10.9777/chd.2018.10010 www.companyofscientists.com/index.php/chd e2 Cancer Health Disparities COMMENTRY The First Strike: I like to use the Frist Strike analogy from a military perspective to define my battle with prostate cancer. At the start of my battle with prostate cancer, I noticed some pain in the most sacred part of my body.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-66", "words": "5029", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Haring, Rodney C; Jane Maracle, Iehnhotonkwas Bonnie; Sanderson, Priscilla R.; Henry, Whitney Ann E.; Grandbois, Donna; Hill, Pete", "title": "Indigenous Writing Retreats: Native American Community Members and Scholars in action!", "date": "2018", "keywords": "cancer; community; event; faculty; fellows; hampton; haudenosaunee; health; indigenous; research; retreats; scholars; time; writing", "summary": "This perspective piece presents experiences from a national cohort of Indigenous scholars (n=6) and viewpoints from a series of Indigenous writing retreats (n=22). Indigenous writing retreats are also a means to socialize, interact, and learn with communities during down times.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-70", "words": "10458", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Haring, Rodney C.; Jim, Melissa A; Erwin, Deborah; Kaur, Judith Salmon; Henry, Whitney Ann E.; Haring, Marissa L; Seneca, Dean S.", "title": "Health Disparities, Cancer among the Haudenosaunee, New York State", "date": "2018", "keywords": "american; cancer; cancer health; death; death rates; disease; disparities; east; east ai; haudenosaunee; health; health disparities; liver; mortality; rates; research; whites", "summary": "Haudenosaunee cancer mortality rates in women were 169.3 compared to 139.5 for the East AI/AN. Cancer death rates and leading cancer causes of death for the Haudenosaunee Nations, East, and U.S. comparing AI/AN with white persons by sex for 1990-2009 are presented in Table 2.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-72", "words": "1946", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Akinyemiju, Tomi", "title": "Absolute and Relative Black-White Disparities in Cancer Incidence and Survival in the United States, 2000-2014", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cancer; disparities; health; incidence; survival", "summary": "KEYWORDS: cancer incidence; cancer survival; SEER; racial disparities Citation: This report shows absolute and relative inequalities in cancer incidence and survival among Blacks and Whites in the US.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-73", "words": "5419", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Thomas, Portia LaLiah; Shanker, Anil", "title": "Notch as an Immunologic Basis of Cancer Disparities", "date": "2019", "keywords": "breast; breast cancer; cancer; cell; disparities; et al; expression; function; health; notch; signaling; tumor", "summary": "In murine CD8+ T cells, Notch signaling controls activated CD8+ T cell fate towards terminal effector cell versus memory precursor cell fates (Backer et al., 2014). The decreased expression of Notch components resulted in tumor-induced immunosuppression in T cell function that correlated with poor prognosis (Biktasova et al., 2015; Huang et al., 2011; Thounaojam et al., 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-76", "words": "4031", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Ryan, Brid Mairead; Nichols, Noah; Mitchell, Khadijah; Zingone, Adriana; Meaney, Claire; Bowman, Elise D.", "title": "Relationship between the TP53 SNP rs1800371 and Lung Cancer in African Americans", "date": "2019", "keywords": "african; americans; cancer; et al; lung; lung cancer; p53; proline; risk; serine; tp53", "summary": "The objective of this study is to determine whether rs1800371 is associated with lung cancer risk and survival in African Americans and admixed European Americans. Relationship between rs1800371 with lung cancer risk among African Americans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-77", "words": "1619", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Kaur, Judith Salmon; Winchester, Blythe", "title": "The Evolution of Palliative Care within the American Indian Health System", "date": "2018", "keywords": "cancer; care; health; indian; palliative", "summary": "American Indian and Alaska Native patients have significant differences in mortality from various cancers, and therefore palliative care is very important while working in parallel towards improved survival overall. In fact, palliative care has in some circumstances even contributed to improved survival (Annual report to the Nation on the status of cancer 1975-2009.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-85", "words": "5774", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Tonsing, Mary V.; Ghatak, Souvik; Lalrohlui, Freda; Kumar, Nachimuthu Senthil; Zohmingthanga, John", "title": "Five Years Record on Cancer Incidence from a Diagnostic Centre in Mizoram, Northeast India: Cancer trend in Mizoram", "date": "2019", "keywords": "age; breast; cancer; cervix; group; india; liver; lung; oesophagus; stomach", "summary": "Breast cancer (145000 cases per year), tobacco-related head and neck cancers (141000), cervical cancer (123000), lung cancer (70000), large bowel cancer (64000), and stomach cancer (63000) account for more than half of the burden, implying that prevention, along with early detection and treatment, are important interventions for cancer control In older age group (41 to 60 and >60), stomach cancer was the leading cancer followed by oesophagus cancer in throughout all the years.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-89", "words": "4788", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Khan, Mohammad Aslam; Patel, Girijesh Kumar; Srivastava1, Sanjeev K; Carter, James E; Pierce, Jennifer Y.; Rocconi, Rodney P.; Singh, Seema; Singh, Ajay P", "title": "Looking at Cancer Health Disparities without the Colored Lenses", "date": "2019", "keywords": "american; cancer; cancer health; disparities; et al; health; research", "summary": "www.companyofscientists.com/index.php/chd e1 Cancer Health Disparities RESEARCH Looking at cancer health disparities without the colored lenses Mohammad Aslam Khan1, Girijesh Kumar Patel1, Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava1,2, James Elliot Carter3, Jennifer Young Pierce4, Rodney Paul Rocconi4, Seema Singh1,5, Ajay Pratap Singh1,5* 1Department of Oncologic Sciences, Mitchell Cancer Institute, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36604, USA; 2Division of Cell Biology and Genetics, Tatva Biosciences, Coastal Innovation Hub, 600 Clinic Drive, Mobile, AL, 36688, USA; 3Department of Pathology, College of medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36617, USA; 4Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Mitchell Cancer Institute, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, 36604, USA; 5Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688, USA *Corresponding author-mail: asingh@health.southalabama.edu ABSTRACT Cancer health disparities (CHDs), defined as the adverse differences in cancer incidence and mortality, are prevalent in certain racial and ethnic groups. Looking at cancer health disparities without the colored lenses.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-90", "words": "3842", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Oppong, Bridget; Dash, Chiranjeev; Makambi, Kepher; Ma, Xiaoyang; Coleman, Tesha; Greenwald, Holly; Adams-Campbell, Lucile L.", "title": "Mammography Utilization Trends at a Safety-Net Center", "date": "2019", "keywords": "age; breast; cancer; health; mammography; screening; trends; women; years", "summary": "Utilizing data from CBCC, we evaluated mammography screening patterns and time trends by sociodemographic characteristics in a population of primarily Black and Hispanic women who received breast cancer screening between 2010 and 2015. MATERIALS AND METHODS The number of D.C. residents also decreased as more patients traveled from Maryland and Virginia to obtain breast cancer screening (p-value <0.0001).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-91", "words": "7468", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Luque, John S; Maupin, Jonathan N; Ferris, Daron G", "title": "Comparative study of HPV and Cervical Cancer Knowledge and Beliefs between Mexican Immigrant Women in the US and Peruvian Women", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cancer; cervical; factors; georgia; health; hpv; knowledge; participants; peru; peruvian; research; risk; sample; screening; study; women", "summary": "In the US, Hispanic immigrant women experience restricted access to health care and higher incidence rates of cervical cancer compared to the non-Hispanic white population. To explore knowledge and beliefs about cervical cancer, survey questionnaires were administered to Mexican immigrant women in southeast Georgia, US and to mestizo women - primarily Quechua language dominant speakers - in Cusco, Peru.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-92", "words": "4636", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Orsak, Gabriela; Ndetan, Harrison; Allen, Carlton; Singh, Karan P.; McGaha, Paul", "title": "Colorectal Adenoma Detection Rate in Northeast Texas \u2013 Outcome from Community Service Project Using the Fecal Immunochemical Test and Colonoscopy", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cancer; colonoscopy; fit; health; results; screening; study; test; texas", "summary": "Finally, likelihood ratio tests revealed a non-significant effect of insurance status on FIT test result (p = 0.419). While insurance status did not have an effect on FIT test results, a large proportion of participants with abnormal results failed to follow-up for subsequent colonoscopy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-97", "words": "7385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Batai, Ken; Gachupin, Francine C; Estrada, Antonio L.; Garcia, David O.; Gomez, Jorge; Kittles, Rick A.", "title": "Patterns of Cancer Related Health Disparities in Arizona", "date": "2019", "keywords": "ais; arizona; cancer; cancer health; cancer incidence; colorectal; health; incidence rates; latinos; nhws; prostate; prostate cancer; rates; screening", "summary": "In an effort to better understand cancer health disparities, cancer incidence rates in AIs and Latinos in Arizona were compared to non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs). Our review of cancer incidence rates suggests that socio-demographic factors, such as population size (rural/urban) and poverty levels, have influenced cancer detection and incidence rates in Arizona. KEYWORDS:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "chd-99", "words": "8266", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Nogueira, Lourdes M; Burton, Clare E; Black, Laurel; Fox, Jasmine D; Helke, Kristi L; Garrett-Mayer, Elizabeth; Watson, Dennis K; Turner, David P; Findlay, Victoria J", "title": "MicroRNA 204 mediated negative regulation of the IGF2R promotes breast cancer progression and is a potential mechanism driving breast cancer disparity", "date": "2019", "keywords": "analysis; breast; breast cancer; cancer; cells; control; disparities; et al; expression; figure; growth; igf2r; levels; lines; mice; migration; mir-204; receptor; tumor", "summary": "We observed that miR-204 expression was able to significantly increase both migration and invasion of non-transformed breast cells (MCF10A & MCF12A) when overexpressed (Figure 1A & B). (B) qPCR analysis of miR-204 expression in serum samples from (n=19) African American (AA) and (n=17) Caucasian American (CA) women with either low grade (LG) or high grade (HG) breast cancer.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]