Reports and Fact Sheets
Select NCI/NIH Reports
- CRCHD’s Patient Navigation Research Program highlighted in Parade Magazine
See this Parade article (March 30th issue) for an excellent overview of PNRP and patient navigation benefits. - Cancer
Health Disparities: Questions and Answers
Fact sheet providing an overview of current cancer disparity statistics and information. - NCI Special Report: A Journey of Discovery
Learn about NCI’s training and fellowship programs that recruit minority researchers and investigators, with in-depth profiles of young minority investigators from NCI’s intramural and extramural programs. - Cancer Trends Progress Report:
2007 Update
Includes key measures of progress along the cancer control continuum and uses national trend data to illustrate where advances have been made. - American Indian Cancer Incidence
Report
Provides useful data on various cancer types and risk factors among American Indians and Alaska Natives. - 2007 CRCHD
Cancer Health Disparities Summit Final Report
Provides highlights of the opinion health disparities research and groundbreaking endeavors from Summit ‘07, including insights from media experts on how to effectively interact with minority media outlets. View the Report (PDF) - Economic
Costs of Cancer Health Disparities Report
Identify methodological and philosophical issues involved in filling the gap in our understanding of the economic costs of cancer health disparities from these proceedings and recommendations. View the Report (PDF) - The
Special Populations Networks: Achievements and Lessons Learned 2000-2005
(Supplement to CANCER Volume 107 Issue S8)
Provides highlights of the activities and accomplishments of the Special Populations Networks (SPN) program, a five-year, nationwide NCI-funded project to reduce cancer health disparities in minority and underserved populations. - Enhancing
Interactions to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: An NCI-wide Workshop
Overarching action objectives and action plans for reducing cancer health disparities are summarized from the two-day NCI workshop held on the NIH campus in November 2005. - Excess
Cervical Cancer Mortality
Find recommendations addressing the components of the cervical cancer problem, critical needs, and suggested actions to meet those needs. Item Number T077 - Voices
of a Broken System: Real People, Real Problems: President's Cancer Panel
Report
Historic document summarizing the results of the town meetings held throughout the United States during 2000 to learn about cancer care problems faced by cancer patients. Item Number P993
Other Government Reports
- Healthy People 2010
- National Healthcare Disparities Report
- HHS Fact Sheet: Eliminating Minority Health Disparities
Updated: 03/21/12