Breast cancer rates increased slightly for African American women, decreased for Latinas, and remained unchanged for white, Asian American, and American Indian/Alaska Native women from 2006-2010, the most recent five-year span of available data, according to a new report by the American Cancer Society (ACS). Overall, breast cancer incidence rates are highest in white women, followed by African American women, while breast cancer death rates are highest for African American women, followed by white women, according to 2013-14 Breast Cancer Facts and Figures, which provides updated cancer research facts about breast cancer, including incidence, mortality, and survival trends for breast cancer, as well as information on early detection, treatment, and factors that influence risk and ...
Want to learn more about caring for your bones when you have breast cancer? Have questions about the Affordable Care Act? These topics are just two of the upcoming Connect Education Workshops from CancerCare that bring together leading cancer experts to provide up-to-date information in one-hour educational cancer workshops. Workshops are free. Participants can listen in live over the phone or online as a webcast. Register here. Redes En Acción, the national Latino cancer research network led by the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, partners with CancerCare to periodically offer free workshops on cancer issues that impact Hispanics. You can also listen to past workshops, such as a Spanish-language workshop on Latinas and ...
While U.S. obesity rates appear to have leveled off, Hispanics and Blacks have strikingly higher obesity rates than their White and Asian peers, Bloomberg reports. The good news is that overall adult obesity is not rising. About one-third of American adults (about 78 million people) are obese, about the same number as across the last decade, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report was led by researcher Dr. Cynthia L. Ogden. But racial/ethnic disparities in obesity rates continue to be alarming. About 43 percent of Hispanics and 48 percent of blacks are obese, compared with 33 percent of whites and 11 percent of Asians, Bloomberg reports. Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez, director the Salud ...
You're invited to join a Twitter Chat with two top researchers who will focus on disparities in breast cancer among minorities. The chat, from 4-5 p.m. central on Oct. 7, 2013, is co-hosted by Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR). Two researchers will head the event: Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez, director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, will address breast cancer among Latinas, particularly why they tend to suffer more late-stage disease.
Dr. Christopher Li, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, is an epidemiologist studying breast cancer outcomes and survivorship. Ask questions and follow live on Twitter using the hashtag #BCDisparities. You also can follow the chat via the ...
To raise the awareness of colorectal and cervical cancers and increase prevention and early detection among Latinos, the University Health System (UHS) in San Antonio, Texas, has produced several public service announcements (PSAs) in both Spanish and English as part of its A Su Salud San Antonio campaign. The PSAs are being aired across the region and are now on the UHS YouTube page. Here is one of the cervical cancer PSAs in English and another in Spanish. Here is one of the colorectal cancer PSAs in English and another in ...
Cervical cancer is most frequently diagnosed in Latinas, and black women tend to have lower 5-year survival rates and die more often than any other race, according to a news report in the Chicago Defender. However, the disease is preventable. Here are six ways the article lists to reduce your cervical cancer risk: 1. Get a regular Pap smear.
2. Follow up on abnormal Pap smears.
3. If you are sexually active, use a condom.
4. Limit the amount of sexual partners you have.
5. Quit smoking or avoid secondhand smoke.
6. Get the HPV vaccine. Regarding the HPV vaccine, according to the article: "Two vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, have been approved for use in girls and young women to help prevent cervical cancer. Gardasil immunizes against certain strains of HPV which cause 70% of cervical ...
Are you a cancer researcher? You're invited to join a free webinar to learn more recruiting minorities into clinical research. The webinar, which is at 11 a.m. CST (9 a.m. PST) on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, is hosted by Redes En Acción, a Latino cancer research network funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and based at the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, to highlight critical challenges that must be addressed to accelerate the advancement of the science of recruitment and retention of ethnically diverse populations into clinical studies. For the webinar, Redes researchers will present evidence of the relative lack of attention by researchers to recruitment and retention of ethnically diverse populations and what we ...
Find the latest advances in Latino health—from cancer survivorship to obesity prevention—in IHPR Noticias, the newsletter from the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind SaludToday. IHPR Noticias has these stories and more: Studies: Three Survivors Find Hermandad (Pg 1)
Profile: From Sundae Sunday to Public Health...The Story of the IHPR's Shannon Baldwin (Pg 2)
Story: Research Highlights Ways to Prevent Latino Childhood Obesity (Pg 3)
Story: Employees Take Healthy Eating, Exercise Challenges (Pg 4)
Story and Video: San Antonio Reports Significant Drop in Obesity Rates (Pg 6)
Story: Latino Teens Have Low Vaccine Rates (Pg 7)
Story: Hispanic High School Grads Pass Whites in Rate ...
Diabetes and obesity are the two most significant health threats in South Texas, according to a new report published online in Springer Open Books by the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) in the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The South Texas Health Status Review, originally self-published in 2008, was updated this year to study more than 35 health conditions and risk factors and how people in South Texas may be differently affected than those in the rest of Texas or nation. The Review, in addition to singling out diabetes and obesity, also indicates that the South Texas region faces higher rates than the rest of Texas or nation for: Cervical, liver, stomach and gallbladder cancers
Child and adolescent ...
