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State of
Cancer Care for Nation's Poor and Minorities
is focus of conference in Washington …Forum
Is largest meeting on disparities in Cancer
Care and Survival
WASHINGTON, March 28
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The state of
cancer care for the nation's poor and ethnic
minorities will be addressed when the
Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC) and
Baylor College of Medicine hold the 11th
Biennial Symposium on Minorities, The
Medically Underserved & Cancer April 3-6 at
the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC.
The ICC Biennial Symposium
is the largest forum in the United States
and its associated territories solely
designed to confront the disproportionately
greater suffering and compromised health
from cancer facing the medically
underserved, such as racial and ethnic
minorities.
The conference will
feature more than 40 educational sessions,
an information exchange forum, and several
awards ceremonies, including one to honor
Maureen Lichtveld, M.D., M.P.H., a pioneer
in the science of
gene-environment
interaction, especially as it relates to
environmentally induced carcinogenesis.
With the theme Charting a
New Course Together: Quality Health Care for
All, ICC's 11th biennial symposium comes at
a time when new reports document
disproportionate rates of the incidence,
prevalence, mortality, survival, risks and
treatment of cancer for racial and ethnic
minorities and those living in rural areas.
A major topic on the
agenda will be mobilizing communities to
overcome these disparities by learning about
innovative programs to increase cancer
screenings and to recruit more cancer
patients into clinical trials at the local
level.
The forum will also focus
on best practices in patient navigation for
those undergoing cancer treatment and
increased access to pain management and
palliative
care at the end of life,
areas where disparities in cancer care are
significant.
"As a nation, we have
witnessed significant declines in cancer
deaths, but not all Americans are benefiting
equally from this progress.
"Cancer
is an area where racial and ethnic
minorities and the poor continue are more
likely to get cancer and die from their
disease," said Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D.,
co-founder of the ICC.
"This symposium will shine
a light on the unequal burden of cancer
faced by ethnic minorities, the elderly and
the poor so cancer advocates and policy
makers will have the insights to improve the
services and programs designed to prevent,
detect and treat cancer at its earliest
stages and to support the medically
underserved through and beyond treatment."
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