An overview of cancer health disparities: new approaches and insights and why they matter

TZ Minas, M Kiely, A Ajao, S Ambs - Carcinogenesis, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cancer health disparities remain stubbornly entrenched in the US health care system. The
Affordable Care Act was legislation to target these disparities in health outcomes. Expanded …

Lung cancer health disparities

BM Ryan - Carcinogenesis, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Compared with all other racial and ethnic groups in the United States, African Americans are
disproportionally affected by lung cancer, both in terms of incidence and survival. It is likely …

Cancer mortality among US blacks: variability between African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and Africans

PS Pinheiro, H Medina, KE Callahan, D Kwon… - Cancer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction Aggregation of all Black populations in US cancer mortality profiles
masks remarkable heterogeneity by place of birth. Comparing US-born African Americans …

Beliefs associated with cancer screening behaviors among African Americans and Sub-Saharan African immigrant adults: a cross-sectional study

A Adegboyega, AT Wiggins, O Obielodan, M Dignan… - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Background Beliefs influence cancer screening. However, there are conflicting findings
about how belief influence cancer screening among Black adults. The aim of this study was …

Breast cancer subtypes among Eastern‐African–born black women and other black women in the United States

H Sung, CE DeSantis, SA Fedewa, EJ Kantelhardt… - Cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background A previous study reported that Eastern‐African–born black women in the United
States had lower prevalence of estrogen receptor‐negative breast cancer than those in US …

Interventions for increasing colorectal cancer screening uptake among African-American men: a systematic review and meta-analysis

CR Rogers, P Matthews, L Xu, K Boucher, C Riley… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background African-American men have the lowest 5-year survival rate in the US for
colorectal cancer (CRC) of any racial group, which may partly stem from low screening …

Screening high‐risk populations for esophageal and gastric cancer

S Li, DC Chung, JT Mullen - Journal of surgical oncology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cancers of the esophagus and stomach remain important causes of mortality worldwide, in
large part because they are most often diagnosed at advanced stages. Thus, it is imperative …

Breast cancer incidence trends by estrogen receptor status among Asian American ethnic groups, 1990–2014

AW Tuan, BC Davis Lynn, P Chernyavskiy… - JNCI cancer …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Westernization and etiologic heterogeneity may play a role in the rising breast
cancer incidence in Asian American (AA) women. We report breast cancer incidence in …

The case for health reparations

DR Soled, A Chatterjee, D Olveczky… - Frontiers in public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on racially marginalized communities has again
raised the issue of what justice in healthcare looks like. Indeed, it is impossible to analyze …

Differences in breast cancer outcomes amongst Black US-born and Caribbean-born immigrants

P Barreto-Coelho, D Cerbon, M Schlumbrecht… - Breast cancer research …, 2019 - Springer
Background There are few studies that directly investigate disparities in outcome within the
African diaspora in the US. We investigated the association between nativity of Black women …