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Symposium on Reducing the Unequal Burden of Cancer

Program

Session I: Cancers due to infections: unequal burdens Nancy E. Mueller, Chairperson

Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric cancer

Pelayo Correa

Cervical cancer: disparities in screening, treatment and survival

Elizabeth I. O. Garner

Viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma in African Americans

Sarathchandra I. Reddy and Chinweike Ukomada

Session II: Cancer prevention and early detection Walter Willett, Chairperson

Challenges in tobacco use prevention among minority youth

Moon S. Chen, Jr.

Reducing health disparities: from theory to practice

Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Brian Gibbs, and Autumn Allen

The role of state health agencies in cancer prevention and control: lessons learned from Massachusetts

Howard K. Koh and Deborah K. Walker

Session III: Cancer therapy and survivorship Bruce A. Chabner, Chairperson

Reducing the burden of cancer borne by African Americans: if not now, when?

Sandra Millon Underwood

Increasing participation of physicians and patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored clinical trials

Michaele C. Christian and Edward L. Trimble

Round table discussions: cancer survivorship issues for minority and underserved populations

Timothy D. Gilligan, Marilyn A. Carrington, Thomas P. Sellers, Luis Casal, Lowell E. Schnipper, and Frederick P. Li

Acknowledgments

We thank the following organizations for financial and staff support: National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities; American Cancer Society, Massachusetts Chapter; Massachusetts Department of Public Health; Harry and Elsa Jiler American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship; Harvard Medical School’s Center for Excellence in Women’s Health; Friends of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; and Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.

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