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Cancer Health Economics Research
Details: Cancer health economic research is the application of health economics theory and models to cancer prevention and screening, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and end-of-life care. Cancer health economics research studies factors associated with the organization, production, delivery and demand for cancer-related care, as well as outcomes
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Cancer Health Disparities
Details: Cancer Health Disparities. NCI defines cancer health disparities as adverse differences between certain population groups in a wide range of cancer measures including incidence, prevalence, morbidity, mortality, survivorship and quality of life after cancer treatment, burden of cancer or related health conditions, screening rates, and stage at diagnosis.
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Eliminating Cancer Health Disparities Takes All of Us
Details: Health disparities were not yet generally recognized when Dr. Claudia Baquet entered the field in the 1980s. Growing up in New Orleans among a "cultural hodgepodge of African Americans, American Indians, French, and Spanish," she learned about indigenous healing practices and respected different cultures from an early age. Over a decades-long
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What Is Connected Health
Details: Connected health is the use of technology to facilitate the efficient and effective collection, flow, and use of health information.
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The Challenges of Cancer Misinformation on Social Media
Details: Health care professionals, research and health care organizations, government agencies, and technology and social media companies all need to take responsibility and play a role in addressing the problem, she said. And to help individuals be more critical consumers of information, “we also need to think about education and health literacy
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Cancer Health Disparities Working Group
Details: The Cancer Health Disparities Working Group (CHDWG) focuses on addressing cancer health disparities in epidemiologic and genomic studies. The group strives to synergize efficient and timely changes in our research to be able to promote discovery of the determinants of cancer in diverse populations across race/ethnicity/ancestry, gender including gender identity and …
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NCI study examines excess deaths associated with the …
Details: About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes
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Irinotecan Hydrochloride, Temozolomide, and …
Details: Cancer Health Disparities. Childhood Cancers Research. Global Cancer Research. Cancer Research Infrastructure. NCI-Designated Cancer Centers. Clinical Trials. Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research . Bioinformatics, Big Data, and Cancer. Key Initiatives. Progress. Annual Report to the Nation.
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ID) NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
Details: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services I National Institutes of Health . variants for NCI/DCEG and the work is ongoing. The proposed work is a continuation of the ongoing functional work. The proposed source (Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey) is uniquely experience performing all of the
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› Url: https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/contracts/opportunities/bidboard/75n91019q00161-rc.pdf Go Now
State Cancer Profiles > Demographics Table
Details: Demographic Data Report by State Crowding: Households with >1 person per room All Ages, All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Data
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› Url: https://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/demographics/index.php?stateFIPS=00&areatype=county&topic=crowd&demo=00027&race=00&type=manyareacensus&sortVariableName=name&sortOrder=asc Go Now
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) CBIIT
Details: Negative health outcomes linked to SDOH include: high incidence/prevalence and an earlier onset or more aggressive progression of disease. premature or excessive mortality from specific conditions. significant global burden of disease, such as disability-adjusted life years, as measured by population health metrics.
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Financial Toxicity and Cancer Treatment (PDQ®)–Health
Details: The proportion of health care plans with multitiered (>3) prescription formularies, in which expensive oral specialty drugs are associated with the highest cost sharing, increased from 3% in 2004 to nearly 88% in 2017. These trends in treatment cost and changes in insurance coverage suggest that financial distress associated with acute and
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How Can Big Data Help to Address Health Disparities
Details: More than 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “ Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.” 1 While the focus of this recent workshop was on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) in oncology, we’re also seeing this statement reflected
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› Url: https://datascience.cancer.gov/news-events/blog/how-can-big-data-help-address-health-disparities Go Now
Smart and Connected Health EGRP/DCCPS/NCI/NIH
Details: The Smart and Connected Health initiative is therefore designed to encourage multidisciplinary approaches and greater collaboration between academic, industry, and nonprofit sectors. It also aims to establish better linkages between fundamental science, clinical practice and technology development, and deployment and use.
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› Url: https://epi.grants.cancer.gov/risk/smart-connected-health.html Go Now
CCR Health Disparity Award
Details: CCR Health Disparity Award. Background. CCR/NCI has made cancer health disparity a research priority. The objective is to improve cancer care in underserved and rural communities, to promote the science directed at understanding the causes of these disparities, and to study cancer and cancer treatments in understudied populations.
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› Url: https://ccrod.cancer.gov/confluence/display/OSD/CCR+Health+Disparity+Award Go Now
Center for Global Health Publications
Details: The burden of cancer in Africa is growing rapidly, and increased cancer research on the continent is a critical component of an effective response. Toward this goal, in 2010, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Global Health (CGH), in partnership with the African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC), launched the
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Annual Integrative Medicine and Women’s Health Speaker
Details: Annual NIH Integrative Medicine and Women’s Health Webinar (May 13, 2021, 10 a.m.-4:00 p.m. EST) A week-long health observance, National Women’s Health Week (NWHW) begins on Mother’s Day each year. It is a reminder for women to make their health a priority by incorporating a healthy lifestyle, and for biomedical researchers to consider the importance of …
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NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Details: NCI's Dictionary of Cancer Terms provides easy-to-understand definitions for words and phrases related to cancer and medicine.
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Tissue Health Prevails: KRAS Mutant Cells are Outcompeted
Details: Unlike the skin or intestine, which replenish over a period of days, the adult pancreas is a slow growing tissue and uses cell reprogramming pathways (plasticity) to regenerate following injury. How the pancreas maintains tissue health following mutational insult is less well understood.
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› Url: https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/ras/ras-central/blog/2021/hill-hogan-outcompetition-mut-kras-cells Go Now
Tisch Cancer Institute
Details: The Tisch Cancer Institute (TCI) at Mount Sinai is a vital component of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and part of the Mount Sinai Health System, which encompasses eight member hospital campuses across the New York City metropolitan area.
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› Url: https://www.cancer.gov/research/infrastructure/cancer-centers/find/tischmountsinai Go Now
Global Cancer Seminar Series
Details: Dr. Donna Shelley is a Professor of Public Health Policy and Management, Vice Chair for Research, and Director of the Global Center for Implementation Science in the Department of Public Health Policy and Management at the New York University (NYU) School of Global Public Health (GPH).
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Social Determinants of Health by US Census Tract
Details: Social Determinants of Health by US Census Tract. This data set includes, for each US census tract (defined using 2010 census tract boundaries), certain social determinants of health data elements, including race/ethnicity, education, poverty, urban/rural, socioeconomic status, and racial residential segregation indices defined using 2008-2012
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Introduction to the Health Disparities Calculator (HD*Calc
Details: The Health Disparities Calculator (HD*Calc) is a statistical software designed to generate multiple summary measures to evaluate and monitor health disparities (HD). HD*Calc was created as an extension of SEER*Stat that allows the user to import Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results ( SEER) data or other population based health data, such
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Environment, Health, and Safety
Details: Occupational Health Services: 301-846-1096 Safety: 301-846-1451 E-mail EHS at [email protected] The Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) directorate consists of three main departments: • Occupational Health Services —provides comprehensive health services, medical surveillance for potential occupational
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NCI at Frederick
Details: Environmental, Health and Safety Sign In. In order to access protected EHS content, you must first login using your NIH account. iTrust Banner. You are being redirected to our login page. We'll bring you right back. If you aren't automatically redirected, click here: iTrust Login Page.
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EATING HABITS QUESTIONNAIRE
Details: your health. The questions focus particularly on eating habits. The information you provide will help scientists understand more about ways to help people prevent disease. Your completed survey will be completely confidential. No one at your health center will see your responses. Your answers will help us determine
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Geographic Information Systems & Science
Details: Health Disparities Information. The identification and elimination of health disparities is an application area of growing importance at NCI. Tools to identify such disparities include mapping at the small area level and spatial analysis of health outcomes of sociodemographic subgroups. The links below describe major initiatives in this area.
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Behavioral Health Core Center for Cancer Research
Details: Behavioral Health Core. The optimal outcome for a child and family facing the diagnosis of cancer or other medical condition requires the efforts of a multidisciplinary team. Early attention to the psychological and social-emotional needs of the child and family results in better adjustment, increased medication adherence, improved quality of
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Coal Tar and Coal-Tar Pitch
Details: OSHA provides detailed safety and health information about coal-tar pitch to the public. Selected References: National Toxicology Program. Coal Tars and Coal-Tar Pitches, Report on Carcinogens, Fourteenth Edition. Triangle Park, NC: National Institute of Environmental Health and Safety, 2016. Also available online. Last accessed December 28, 2018.
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NCORP :: Community Sites
Details: Wellmont Holston Valley Hospital and Medical Center. Upstate Carolina Consortium Community Oncology Research Program. PI: James D. Bearden III, M.D., B.S. Site Address: Spartanburg, South Carolina. Locations in: South Carolina. Show affiliates and sub-affiliates +. Hide affiliates and sub-affiliates -. AnMed Health Cancer Center.
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Health Information OCCAM
Details: If you are a health care provider… this workbook contains several documents which can be used to help your patients keep track of their medicines, CAM use, and complementary providers. It is intended to help you talk with your patients about their goals, beliefs, symptom management, and use of CAM therapies during and after cancer care.
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State Cancer Profiles > Demographics Table
Details: Demographic Data Report by State Population: Age 65 and over All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Data
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Health Policy: Colorectal Cancer
Details: Health Policy: Colorectal Cancer - Landmark Studies. Back to Landmark Studies Home. The contents of this section were published in 2003 as part of SEER's 30th Anniversary celebration. Several studies using SEER data have shed light on the use and usefulness of colorectal cancer screening. In 1990, scientists examined the public health impact of
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Health Information OCCAM
Details: About CAM. Provides definitions of the terms complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine. Defines major categories of CAM therapies and provides examples. Shares NCI’s latest CAM research and activities. Provides answers to questions about cancer and CAM.
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CRCHD Funding for Research and Training
Details: CRCHD provides extramural grants to researchers and institutions conducting research on cancer and cancer health disparities. CRCHD is also committed to the training and development of a diverse cancer research workforce and offers funding support for several diversity training and career development opportunities to underrepresented students and researchers.
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Breast Health Education Among Hispanic Elderly Women
Details: The intervention is a culturally sensitive health promotion pilot program, developed to promote the early detection of breast cancer in women aged 65 or older living in Puerto Rico. The goal of the program is to increase compliance with the recommended guidelines for breast cancer screening. Objectives to reach this goal include the following
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About CAM Health Information OCCAM
Details: CAM Definitions. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) Any medical system, practice, or product that is not thought of as standard care. Complementary Medicine. A CAM therapy used along with standard medicine. Alternative Medicine. A CAM therapy used in place of standard treatments.
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NCORP :: Site Profile :: Essentia Health NCORP
Details: Essentia Health Cancer Center - South University Clinic. 1702 South University Drive. Fargo, North Dakota. Essentia Health Hibbing Clinic. 730 East 34th Street. Hibbing, Minnesota. Essentia Health Saint Joseph's Medical Center. 523 Third Street North. Brainerd, Minnesota.
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Your Mental Health
Details: Your Mental Health. Living with a brain or spine tumor can be overwhelming. It can affect how you feel and function. You may feel angry, frustrated, unmotivated, and powerless. Simple tasks may take more time now or require help from family and friends.
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Sample Healthcare Delivery Research Grant Applications
Details: Sample Grants. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) frequently receives requests for examples of funded grant applications. Several investigators and their organizations agreed to let the Healthcare Delivery Research Program (HDRP) post excerpts of their healthcare delivery research grant applications online. We are grateful to the investigators
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Interagency Consortium to Promote Health Economics
Details: The interagency consortium to promote health economics research on cancer (HEROiC) brings together the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Cancer Society, other government agencies, and cancer-focused non-profit professional and patient-advocacy societies (501(c)(3) organizations).
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Cambodian Women's Health Project Evidence-Based Cancer
Details: Workers serve as role models, provide social support, and serve as cultural mediators between women and health care facilities. During home visits, workers and women watch a Khmer-language video about Pap tests, address individual barriers to screening, and offer logistical assistance. After the home visit, workers invite women to attend a
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Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment (PDQ®)–Health
Details: A systematic review, an expansion of a health technology assessment conducted in 2001 by the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences, evaluated the accuracy and utility of 18F-FDG PET scanning in the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer. Through a systematic search of the literature, 12 evidence summary reports and 15 prospective studies
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