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Improving Cancer Survival by Understanding Racial/Ethnic Disparities National Cancer Institute (NCI) Science Writers' Seminar Series with the Herbert
Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) at Columbia University Medical
Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia
| What: |
---Each day, 3,400 Americans are diagnosed with cancer and another 1,500 die
from the disease. The burden of cancer is often greater for the poor, for
ethnic minorities and for the uninsured.
---Many ethnic minorities experience lower cancer survival rates than whites.
For example, despite a lower breast cancer incidence, African American women
have significantly worse survival rates from breast cancer than Caucasian
women.
---Differences in biological tumor types, timeliness of treatment, or lack of
compliance with treatment regimens appear to influence outcomes.
---Please join us for discussions about how NCI and the HICCC are working to
reduce cancer health disparities through innovative programs that address
prevention, diagnosis and treatment. For those who can not attend in person, the seminar will be Web cast live and by archive at http://videocast.nih.gov.
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| Who: |
I. Bernard Weinstein, M.D. (HICCC) - HICCC Director Emeritus. Welcome
Alfred I. Neugut, M.D., Ph.D. (HICCC) - Racial/ethnic disparities in
cancer outcomes
Dawn L. Hershman, M.D. (HICCC) - Cancer treatment disparities
Regina M. Santella, Ph.D. (HICCC) - Disparities and differences in tumor
biology
Victor R. Grann, M.D., MPH (HICCC) - Community outreach programs;
clinical trials
Harold Freeman, M.D. (NCI) - NCI's Patient Navigator program |
| When: |
Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Join us for a light breakfast at 8:30 a.m. Talks will begin at 9 a.m. A Q&A
session will conclude the morning by 11:30 a.m.
*Tours will be offered of the Irving Cancer Research Center, a new
300,000 sq. ft. facility at Columbia University Medical Center, dedicated
entirely to investigators conducting disease-specific research of many cancers
- breast, colon, lung, prostate, gastric, pancreatic, brain, lymphoma and tumor
immunology.
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| Where: |
Irving Cancer Research Center at the Columbia University
Medical Center campus.
1130 St. Nicholas Avenue (at West 166th St., just east of Broadway), New York,
NY 10032
Subway: 1, 9, A or C train to 168th St. From midtown Manhattan, the A train
provides express service (20 minutes from Times Square). Buses: M-2, M-3, M-4,
M-5 or M-100.
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| How: |
To register for the press briefing, please contact Dorie Hightower or
Ann Benner in the NCI Media Relations Branch at (301) 496-6641 or at
ncipressofficers@mail.nih.gov.
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