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Exteriors of the UNC Lineberger and Marsico Hall buildings.

UNC Lineberger awarded 17 developmental research grants totaling nearly $1.1 million to faculty during the spring 2022 award cycle.

Katherine Reeder-Hayes, MD, MSc, MBA, and Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, MPH, have received a two-year, nearly $400,000 grant from to address racial disparities in breast cancer care quality in North Carolina.

Headshots of Melissa Troester and Marc Emerson

One in seven black women with breast cancer had delays in starting treatment according to a study led by UNC Lineberger researchers Melissa Troester, PhD, and Marc Emerson, PhD.

Kirsten Nyrop, PhD, Hyman Muss, MD, and colleagues compared how women with breast cancer rated the severity of 17 of their own symptoms with physician ratings of chemotherapy toxicity.

The National Cancer Institute has awarded a four-year, more than $1.87 million grant to University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers to study the impact of implementing financial navigation services at five rural cancer centers in North Carolina to help patients cope with the financial burden, or financial toxicity, related to cancer care. …

Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, MPH, has published a study that found adherence to breast cancer medications may play a role in the disparity of outcomes between white and black women.

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.

UNC Lineberger clinicians and scientists shared their research findings at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting in Chicago.

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UNC Lineberger awards $1.1 million in developmental research grants

N.C. Health News: Cancer health care workers in NC discuss the best way to achieve equity in care – and the answer could lie in Raleigh

ACS/Pfizer grant funds research into racial disparities in breast cancer care quality in North Carolina

Study: Black women with breast cancer experience delayed, longer treatment than whites

Study reveals communication gap between women, doctors about breast cancer treatment symptoms

NCI grant to help patients navigate costs of cancer care

Black women more likely to report not taking breast cancer medication as prescribed

UNC Lineberger faculty present at leading national cancer research meeting