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Cancer Health Disparities

The Problem

Understanding cancer health disparities is the first step in working toward a future with equitable cancer health care. Individuals may belong to one, or numerous communities that are disproportionately impacted by cancer. Navigating one's journey with cancer is difficult on its own, this can be an even more frustrating and isolating experience without the necessary resources and information. Our goal is to make information more accessible to underserved communities. For a more holistic explanation of cancer disparities and the contributing factors, please explore NCI's website.
 

Statistics

In addition to their explanation of cancer health disparities, NCI also provides a breakdown of different statistics on cancer disparities.
 
Proposed model of how disparities might drive signalling pathways associated with aggressive biology in TNBC. Dietze, E., Sistrunk, C., Miranda-Carboni, G. et al. Triple-negative breast cancer in African-American women: disparities versus biology. Nat Rev Cancer 15, 248–254 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrc3896

Social Determinants of Health

Social determinants are defined as the conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age. These determinants are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources across society, and they affect health in terms of overall personal function, quality of life, risks, and outcomes.

Effective Quote from the journal: “We must acknowledge that health inequities are the result of social, economic, and political injustice”

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Impact of Genetic Ancestry and Biology
 

Triple-negative breast cancer in African-American women: disparities versus biology

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive breast cancer subtype that disproportionately affects BRCA1 mutation carriers and young women of African origin. There is evidence that African-American women with TNBC have worse clinical outcomes than women of European descent. However...
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The influence of race and ethnicity on the biology of cancer

It is becoming clear that some of the differences in cancer risk, incidence and survival among people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds can be attributed to biological factors. However, identifying these factors and exploiting them to help eliminate cancer...
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Other Health Disparities

For more information on other non-cancer health disparity work at UCR please visit the UCR Center for Health Disparity Research

 

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