The unequal burden of cancer : an assessment of NIH research and programs for ethnic minorities and the medically underserved /
| Uniform Title: | The unequal burden of cancer (Print) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- The struggle against cancer
- The focus on cancer
- Progress reports
- Finally, some good news
- The Healthy People 2000 review
- More good news
- The fundamental questions
- The burden of cancer among ethnic minorities and medically underserved populations
- Defining the populations
- The burden of cancer among ethnic minorities and medically underserved populations
- Future directions in assessing the burden of cancer among ethnic minority and medically underserved groups
- Summary
- Overview of programs of research on ethnic minority and medically underserved populations at the National Institutes of Health
- Overview of NIH appropriations and funding for cancer research
- Cancer research at other ICDs
- Office of Research on Minority Health
- Overview of scientific infrastructure at NCI
- NCI FY 1997 program and resources allocated to addressing ethnic minority and medically underserved populations
- Allocation of NCI resources for research on ethnic minority and medically underserved groups
- Research on cancer among ethnic minority and medically underserved populations at other ICDs
- Summary and recommendations
- Evaluation of priority setting and programs of research on ethnic minority and medically underserved populations at the National Institutes of Health
- Survey of research stakeholders
- What are the needs of cancer survivors in ethnic minority and medically underserved communities?
- Mechanisms for ethnic minority community and researcher input into the cancer agenda
- Special populations and priority setting at NCI
- Summary
- Advancing state-of-the-art treatment and prevention
- Recruitment and retention of ethnic minority and medically underserved participants in clinical cancer research
- Ethnic minority accrual in NIH-sponsored trials
- How can low ethnic minority accrual be addressed?
- Dissemination of research findings to ethnic minority and medically underserved communities
- Recommendations
- Summary
- Cancer survivorship
- Review of related literature
- NIH and NCI programs and research outcomes relevant to cancer survivorship
- Needs of ethnic minority and medically underserved cancer survivors
- Recommendations
- Monitoring and reporting
- Reporting of results
- Special process items
- Types and timing of reports
- Summary
- Appendixes
- A. Methodology
- B. A new agenda for cancer control research: report of the Cancer Control Review Group
- C. National Cancer Institute Health Promotion Branch publications and public service announcements
- D. Survey of ethnic minority researchers and of researchers interested in cancer among ethnic minority and medically underserved groups
- E. National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute background material
- F. Information provided by the National Center for Health Statistics on the potential reductions in mortality from cancer, by ethnic group.