Event Name:
VOICES of Black Women Study
Description
For more information or to have us join your event, please contact Latoschka Nether, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network at 702-529-0185.
Event Date:
05-01-26 - 05-01-27
Event Time:
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM PST
Location:
American Cancer Society
Contact Person:
Latoschka Nether
(phone: 7025290185)
Details:
At the American Cancer Society, equity in cancer care for all is at the heart of our mission. We prioritize work that helps ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer. It’s with this vision in mind we’re excited to launch a new groundbreaking population cohort study – VOICES of Black Women – underscoring our commitment to better understand how this demographic is impacted by cancer disparities.

This new study is designed to help better understand the multi-level drivers of incidence, mortality, and resilience of cancer and other health conditions among Black women in the United States, so we can better understand how to collectively address them. It will be the largest cohort study of cancer risk and outcomes among Black women in the United States.

VOICES of Black Women kicked off nationwide on May 6, 2024. Recruitment for the study will focus on all 50 U.S states and Washington, D.C.

Recruitment is open to Black women ages 25 to 55 who have not been diagnosed with cancer (except basal or squamous skin cancer). The recruitment model is designed to help enroll women of diverse backgrounds.

For generations, ACS has conducted some of the world’s largest and most impactful population cohort studies to better understand how cancer develops in a population, identify cancer risk factors, and learn how to improve both survivorship and outcomes. ACS population studies have made some of the most groundbreaking discoveries in cancer science: Linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer, linking obesity to risk of early death, and linking regular aspirin use to lower risk of colorectal cancer, among many others.

 Links:
http://voices.cancer.org