In the News

• Racial Differences in Knowledge, Attitudes, and Cancer Screening Practices among a Triracial Rural Population. 101(11):2650-2659. - Paskett, E.D., Tatum, C. Rushing, J., et al. (2004)
  Low-income and rural women are less likely to have cancer screening tests and knowledge on the benefits screening tests.
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• A study by UNC's Dr. Jesse Satia-Abouta and her colleagues found that for African-Americans, frequent consumption of dairy products doubles the risk of developing colon cancer. - Satia-Abouta, J., Galanko, J.A., Martin, C.F., et al. (2004)
  Food Groups and Colon Cancer Risk in African-Americans and Caucasians. Int. J. Cancer 109: 728-736.
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• Incidence Rates and Trends for Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer in North Carolina: 1990 - 1999. Oral Oncology 41: 470-479. - Elter, J.R., Patton, L.L., Strauss, R.P. (2005)
  Oral cancer is the 10th most common cancer in men and 14th most common in women.
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• Race, Breast Cancer Subtypes, and Survival in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. JAMA 295(21): 2492-2502. - Carey, L.A., Perou, C.M., Livasy, C.A., et al. (2006)
  African-American women show higher age-adjusted breast cancer mortality rates than white women.
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• The North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (PCaP): Methods and Design of a Multidisciplinary Population-Based Cohort Study of Racial Differences in Prostate Cancer Outcomes. The Prostate 66:1162-1176. - Schroeder, J.C., Bensen, J.T., Su, L.J., et al. (2006)
  The prostate cancer rate is the highest for African Americans in the U.S. For African Americans, mortality rates due to prostate cancer is higher than white men.
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