{"id":7413,"date":"2024-06-07T09:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T09:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=7413"},"modified":"2024-06-07T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T09:25:08","slug":"cancer-researchers-begin-large-long-term-study-of-black-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=7413","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Researchers Begin Large Long-Term Study of Black Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The American Cancer Society hopes to enroll 100,000 women and follow them for three decades to discover what\u2019s causing higher case and death rates.<\/p>\n

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The American Cancer Society has begun an ambitious, far-reaching study focusing on a population that has long been overlooked, despite high rates of cancer and cancer-related deaths: Black women.<\/p>\n

The initiative, called VOICES of Black Women, is believed to be the first long-term population study of its size to zero in specifically on the factors driving cancer prevalence and deaths among Black women.<\/p>\n

Researchers plan to enroll 100,000 Black women<\/a> without cancer, ages 25 to 55, in Washington, D.C., and 20 states where most Black American women reside. The subjects will be surveyed twice a year about their behaviors, environmental exposures and life experiences, and followed for 30 years; any cancers they may develop will be tracked.<\/p>\n

Similar studies by the American Cancer Society in the past yielded critical lessons about what causes cancer \u2014 for example, identifying cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer and linking red- and processed-meat consumption to increased risk of colon cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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While some earlier studies have included large numbers of Black women, the research wasn\u2019t able to \u201chone in on the specific drivers of cancer in that population,\u201d said Dr. Alpa Patel, senior vice president of population science at the society and co-principal investigator of the VOICES study, along with Dr. Lauren McCullough.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn general population studies, you tend to ask questions that are going to be applicable to the majority of the population,\u201d she said. \u201cSo going deeply into the lived experiences of discrimination, bias, systematic issues, environmental influences and cultural aspects of health-related behaviors, and how the narratives around them are shaped in different populations \u2014 those types of unique aspects of understanding what contributes to cancer in a population weren\u2019t being asked about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The American Cancer Society hopes to enroll 100,000 women and follow them for three decades to discover what\u2019s causing higher case and death rates.The American Cancer Society has begun an ambitious, far-reaching study focusing on a population that has long been overlooked, despite high rates of cancer and cancer-related deaths: Black women.The initiative, called VOICES of Black Women, is believed to be the first long-term population study of its size to zero in specifically on the factors driving cancer prevalence and deaths among Black women.Researchers plan to enroll 100,000 Black women without cancer, ages 25 to 55, in Washington, D.C., and 20 states where most Black American women reside. The subjects will be surveyed twice a year about their behaviors, environmental exposures and life experiences, and followed for 30 years; any cancers they may develop will be tracked.Similar studies by the American Cancer Society in the past yielded critical lessons about what causes cancer \u2014 for example, identifying cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer and linking red- and processed-meat consumption to increased risk of colon cancer.While some earlier studies have included large numbers of Black women, the research wasn\u2019t able to \u201chone in on the specific drivers of cancer in that population,\u201d said Dr. Alpa Patel, senior vice president of population science at the society and co-principal investigator of the VOICES study, along with Dr. Lauren McCullough.\u201cIn general population studies, you tend to ask questions that are going to be applicable to the majority of the population,\u201d she said. \u201cSo going deeply into the lived experiences of discrimination, bias, systematic issues, environmental influences and cultural aspects of health-related behaviors, and how the narratives around them are shaped in different populations \u2014 those types of unique aspects of understanding what contributes to cancer in a population weren\u2019t being asked about.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7415,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}