Anthony B. El-Khoueiry, MD, and Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD, discuss their role within the Stand Up To Cancer® 4-team initiative, focusing on diversity in early-phase clinical trials.
Dr. Fola May is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a researcher in the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. May is also a co-leader of Stand Up To Cancer’s Colorectal Cancer Health Equity Dream Team, which is establishing and implementing comprehensive at-home stool-based colorectal cancer screenings in medically underserved communities around the country, including Los Angeles.
We need to get targeted drugs to childhood cancer patients more quickly. Here’s a proven way to speed up the treatment pipeline.
Multiple myeloma is the most common blood cancer among Black Americans. But many of them have an entirely different experience with the disease than people of other ethnicities do.
When do you really need a colonoscopy? Is it 40, 45, or earlier? Some factors come into play, such as your family history and your bowel movements. If you’ve experienced gastrointestinal issues, such as constipation, or noticed blood in your stool, you might need a colonoscopy sooner than recommended.
As a spokesperson for the annual Cancer Screen Week (a health initiative created by the American Cancer Society, Genentech, Optum, and Stand Up To Cancer) Mike Varshavski, DO — popularly known as “Doctor Mike” to his more than 23 million social media followers — has been spreading the word about the importance of routine cancer screenings.
Stand Up To Cancer continues to tackle the disparities that prevent People of Color and people living in underserved communities from accessing cancer screenings and participating in clinical trials through the SU2C Health Equity Initiative.
In this interview series called “5 Things Everyone Needs To Know About Cancer”, Savio P. Clemente talks to Vinod P. Balachandran, MD and Benjamin Greenbaum, PhD of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, to address common questions about cancer.
