Cancer Health Disparities
Overview
NCI supports research to understand the causes and extent of cancer health disparities and to develop and implement culturally appropriate and sensitive interventions for the elimination of such disparities. NCI's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) provides the organizational locus for accomplishing these tasks. For example, the Center has an ongoing program to understand the origins of and address the entrenched pattern of high cervical cancer mortality found in distinct U.S. populations and geographic areas.
Statistics
Cancer information by race and ethnicity; facts about cancer health disparities.
- Cancer Statistics by Race and Ethnicity
- Statistics on Health Disparities (Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities)
- Methods for Measuring Cancer Disparities: A Review Using Data Relevant to Healthy
People 2010 Cancer-related Objectives - Area Socioeconomic Variations in U.S. Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Stage, Treatment, and Survival, 1975-1999
NCI Research on Cancer Health Disparities
Information about NCI-funded grants, clinical trials, and other programs and initiatives with components that target health disparities in cancers of special concern to women.
- Progress in Research on Cancer Health Disparities (NCI Women's Health Report FY 2005-2006)
- NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
- Cancer Health Disparities: Research Results
- NCI/NIH Health Disparities Research
Centers & Networks
- Community Networks Program
- The Special Populations Network
- Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOPs, Minority-based CCOPs)
- NCI Community Cancer Centers Program
- Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities
- Network for Cancer Control Research among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Populations
Epidemiology and Surveillance
- Surveillance Research on Health Disparities (Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences)
- Health Information National Trends Survey
- California Health Interview Survey
Cancer Control
Treatment
- Cancer Disparities Research Partnership (CDRP) Program
- Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium (CanCORS)
Education and Dissemination
- The Cancer Information Service Partnership Program
- Patient Navigation Research Program (Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities)
Health Disparities Plans and Reports
Reports on progress, gap areas, and recommended future directions in health disparities research.
- Progress in Research on Cancer Health Disparities (NCI Women's Health Report FY 2005-2006)
- Select NCI/NIH Reports (Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities)
- Cancer Health Disparities Summit 2007
- Promoting Healthy Lifestyles (President's Cancer Panel, 2006-2007 Annual Report)
- Cancer Health Disparities Summit 2006
- National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2006 (AHRQ)
- Women of Color Health Data Book, 3rd Edition (Office of Research on Women's Health, NIH, 2006)
- Excess Cervical Cancer Mortality: A Marker for Low Access to Health Care in Poor Communities (June 2005)
- Eliminating Tobacco Related Health Disparities: Summary Report (2005)
- Cancer Health Disparities Progress Review Group (2004)
- Women of Color Monograph (Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences, 2003)
