November 29, 2018
Tag: Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program
November 26, 2018
NCI names Mayer interim director of cancer survivorship
Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN, will serve as interim director of cancer survivorship at the National Cancer Institute while maintaining her appointments and responsibilities at UNC, which includes overseeing a clinical practice working with breast cancer survivors.
November 21, 2018
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Partnerships build a model to find and reverse racial disparities in health care
November 21, 2018
SurvivorNet: How to Help Friends or Family Battling Cancer During the Holidays
November 20, 2018
WCHL: Report Shows HPV Vaccination Rates Are Up
November 15, 2018
Researchers awarded $5.5M to improve colorectal cancer screening in North Carolina
UNC Lineberger's Daniel S. Reuland, MD, MPH, and others involved in the Carolina Cancer Screening Initiative, received a grant from the National Cancer Institute to boost screening for the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States.
October 15, 2018
Scientists zero in on ways to boost colorectal cancer screening
Daniel Reuland, MD, MPH, and colleagues published a review of data from 73 randomized clinical trials that tested different ways of increasing screening for colorectal cancer. Their analysis identified three approaches as being the most effective.
October 5, 2018
Metastatic breast cancer patients report high level of financial impact
A study led by UNC Lineberger's Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, investigated the extent and severity of negative financial effects of cancer among women with breast cancer that has spread in the body. The preliminary results were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Quality Care Symposium, held Sept. 28-29 in Phoenix.
September 24, 2018
Black women more likely to report not taking breast cancer medication as prescribed
A study led by UNC Lineberger’s Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, found that black women were more likely than white women to report not taking endocrine therapy for breast cancer as prescribed, which could help explain why hormone-receptor positive breast cancer mortality is higher among black women.
September 19, 2018
NIH awards $11.6M grant to support study of retail tobacco policies across the U.S.
Three innovative and complementary research projects, done in partnership with UNC at Chapel Hill, Stanford University and Washington University in St. Louis, will examine the role of the tobacco retail environment in promoting tobacco use and causing tobacco-related illnesses.