DF/HCC participates in Minority Cancer Awareness Week
In recognition of April’s National Minority Cancer Awareness Week (NMCAW), April 19-25, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center’s Initiative to Eliminate Cancer Disparities (IECD) collaborated with community organizations to sponsor a variety of cancer awareness and prevention events throughout the Greater Boston community during the month of April
What do clinical investigators, statisticians, health care economists, and health services researchers have in common? They collaborate on outcomes research, says John Ayanian, MD, MPP (HMS/BWH), leader of the Outcomes Research Program at DF/HCC
CanCORS: Understanding the reasons for cancer care disparities
Jane Weeks, MD, MSc, ScM (DFCI), co-leader of the DF/HCC Outcomes Research Program, was convinced she knew why elderly patients with colorectal cancer were much less likely to receive adjuvant chemotherapy than were their younger counterparts