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Date:12/17/2008

imes neglected cancer research that is specific to minority populations, particularly here in the San Diego area."

Disparities in Cancer Rates, Outcomes

According to the NCI, differences in the incidence, prevalence, and death rates of diseases, including cancer, exist among specific population groups in the United States. For example, more American Caucasian women develop breast cancer, but African American women are 15 percent more likely to die from the disease. African Americans have the highest rates for colorectal cancer of any racial group in the U.S. and have higher rates of prostate cancer and present at younger ages than other groups. While breast cancer is diagnosed about 40 percent less often in Hispanic women than in non-Hispanic women, it is more frequently diagnosed at a later stage in Hispanics. Cancer treatment for minority populations, particularly those in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, generally lags behind non-minority groups. "The NCI is trying to eliminate cancer, but that won't be achieved unless we close the gap that still exists among different populations," said Moores UCSD Cancer Center co-principal investigator Ana Navarro, Ph.D., associate professor of family and preventive medicine at UC San Diego. "In order to eliminate cancer in our communities, we need to ramp up efforts in underserved communities."

"We want to understand why these disparities exist and work to improve or eliminate them altogether," said co-principal investigator Elizabeth Klonoff, Ph.D., professor of psychology at SDSU and adjunct professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego, whose research looks at the role ethnicity and gender play in health, with emphasis on cancer-related diseases.

Finding Answers Through Research:

The Partnership will initially support three research projects, a training program and a Cancer Disparities Community Partners and Research Resource. The first research projects are:

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Contact: Steve Benowitz sbenowitz@ucsd.edu 619-543-6163 University of California - San Diego Source:Eurekalert

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