Desai Priyanka P, Lampe Jana B, Bakre Sulaimon A, Basha Riyaz M, Jones Harlan P, Vishwanatha Jamboor K
Texas Center for Health Disparities, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth 76107, Texas, USA.
J Carcinog. 2018 Feb 28;17:1. doi: 10.4103/jcar.JCar_13_17. eCollection 2018.
The Texas Center for Health Disparities (TCHD) at the University of North Texas Health Science Center is a National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities-funded, specialized center of excellence for health disparities. TCHD organized its 12 annual conference focusing on "Evidence-Based Approaches to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: Discover, Develop, Deliver, and Disseminate." At this conference, experts in health care, biomedical sciences, and public health gathered to discuss the current status and strategies for reducing cancer health disparities. The meeting was conducted in three sessions on breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colorectal cancer disparities, in addition to roundtable discussions and a poster session. Each session highlighted differences in the effects of cancer, based on factors such as race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and geographical location. In each session, expert speakers presented their findings, and this was followed by a discussion panel made up of experts in that field and cancer survivors, who responded to questions from the audience. This article summarizes the approaches to fundamental, translational, clinical, and public health issues in cancer health disparities discussed at the conference.
北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心的德克萨斯健康差异中心（TCHD）是一家由美国国立少数族裔健康与健康差异研究所资助的、专门从事健康差异研究的卓越中心。TCHD组织了其第12届年度会议，会议主题为“基于证据减少癌症健康差异的方法：发现、开发、交付和传播”。在本次会议上，医疗保健、生物医学科学和公共卫生领域的专家齐聚一堂，讨论减少癌症健康差异的现状和策略。会议除了进行圆桌讨论和海报展示外，还分三场会议分别讨论乳腺癌、前列腺癌和结直肠癌差异。每场会议都强调了基于种族/民族、性别、社会经济地位和地理位置等因素的癌症影响差异。在每场会议中，专家发言人展示了他们的研究结果，随后由该领域的专家和癌症幸存者组成的讨论小组回答观众的提问。本文总结了会议上讨论的癌症健康差异方面的基础、转化、临床和公共卫生问题的研究方法。
