2nd National Cancer Institute (NCI) Symposium on Cancer Health Disparities

2nd National Cancer Institute (NCI) Symposium on Cancer Health Disparities is organized by National Cancer Institute (NCI) and will be held from Oct 25 - 26, 2018 at National Institutes of Health campus, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.

Course Description:
Minority, immigrant, and disadvantaged populations in the U.S. continue to experience an excessive cancer burden not only due to barriers in access to health care and cultural barriers, but also due to distinct carcinogen and pathogen exposures, environmentally induced stress, co-morbidities, and ancestry-related risk factors. These factors, singularly or in combination, are the likely causes of the existing cancer health disparities in the U.S. and globally. There is strong evidence from migration studies that the environment defines cancer risk but there is also evidence that population differences in genetic ancestry can lead to population differences in cancer susceptibility. One mechanism by which environmental and ancestry-related factors affect health outcomes is by inducing an adverse tumor biology. This symposium will present recent advances in our understanding of the causes of cancer health disparities in the U.S. and globally, and will discuss disparities in cancer outcome and survivorship, and strategies to reduce these disparities, such as novel approaches to prevention, the use of immunotherapy, and Precision Medicine.

Course Topics:
• Epidemiology of racial and social disparities
• Disparities in survivorship
• Contribution of smoking to lung cancer disparities
• Immunotherapy and modification of the microbiome to overcome disparities
• Analysis of tumor biology to advance health disparity research

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.