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Recently our organization (Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program @ John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County) was featured in Cook County Health & Hospitals System newsletter.
Cook County Health and Hospitals System Newsletter - Click to Enlarge
Chicago MBCCOP receives NCI awards for outstanding accrual in 2012!
We are happy to share great news - our MBCCOP receives NCI awards for outstanding accrual in 2012!
Chicago MBCCOP receives NCI award for outstanding accrual in 2012 - Click to Enlarge
See two more awards! ...continue reading
Invitation to annual MBCCOP Open House 2012!
Never heard about clinical research opportunities at John H. Stroger Jr., Hospital of Cook County? Come and see!
Thank you for volunteering Saturday for the Komen Tissue Bank Event!
MBCCOP Team at Komen Tissue Bank event.
Liz S. Way and the rest of The Komen Tissue Bank Team sends us big thanks!
WOW! I can not believe that the September event is now behind me. It was an amazing day! I first want to apologize to all of you that were involved with the bus scheduling confusion. I know some of you drove and others stayed here in Indy. I feel absolutely terrible about it. I want to say that I am sorry!!! I promise to do better in the future.
We are deeply grateful for your willingness to volunteer at our tissue collection event at Stroger Cook County Hospital on Saturday. After every tissue collection event, I am always amazed by our volunteers! Everyone is so willing and motivated to make the day a success ...continue reading
Komen tissue collection event 2012 @ SHCC
Komen tissue collection event 2012 @ SHCC will take place September 29th, 2012.
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center was created in response to a need by scientists carrying out breast cancer research ...continue reading
National Cancer Survivors Day 2012 @ SHCC
The 25th annual National Cancer Survivors Day was celebrated in communities around the world on Sunday, June 3, 2012. John H. Stroger Jr., Hospital of Cook County was one of the sites running the event in Chicago.
Bellow is the gallery of pictures taken during the event. Most of the photos are taken by ©Martin Zielinski, who is a cancer survivor himself ...continue reading
MyBreastCancerTeam – your personal breast cancer support network
MyBreastCancerTeam is making it easier for women facing breast cancer to connect in a much more personal way by sharing experiences, recommending providers and developing real connections with other women just like them who have been in their shoes. The power of a social network that is only for women with breast cancer is truly helping them get the real support and advice they need as they face the disease ...continue reading
ECOG protocol E1Q11 – made in Chicago MBCCOP!
As some of you may know, SHCC MBCCOP staff has been collaborating with Dr. Ashlesha Patel over the past three years to develop a reproductive health in cancer care concept through ECOG.
We are proud to announce that our ECOG concept, E1Q11, EROS: Engendering Reproductive Health in Cancer Care, has been approved by the National Cancer Institute for protocol development. It is projected that this study will be activated this fall.
SHCC buletin - E1Q11 EROS Trial (click on image to enlarge)
Look Good Feel Better presents makeup step-by-step video workshop for cancer patients
Look Good...Feel Better is a free, non-medical, brand-neutral program dedicated to helping you look as good as possible during chemotherapy, radiation, and other cancer treatments.
Free workshops and webinars offer lessons on skin and nail care, cosmetic and accessories and wardrobe styling... helping these patients to find some normalcy in a life that is by no means normal ...continue reading
Chicago MBCCOP receives NCI and CTSU awards for outstanding accrual in 2011!
We are happy to share great news - our MBCCOP receives CTSU award for outstanding accrual in 2011!
Chicago MBCCOP receives CTSU award for outstanding accrual in 2011 - Click to Enlarge
The accompanying letter reads ...continue reading
Our Abstract was Accepted for ASCO Annual Meeting 2010
Abstract title: Stage of breast cancer at presentation in non-U.S. citizens as compared to U.S. citizens. Author(s): T. Aiti, K. Grauslyte, T. Mackevicius, E. A. Marcus, G. Lazzaro, J. Greager, T. E. Lad. For more information, please visit 2010 ASCO Annual Meeting Abstracts website.
p53 revealed as a better biomarker for prediction of survival in african-american women with breast cancer
Detection of a protein called p53 using a specific antibody test may be an improved biomarker for predicting worse survival in African-American women with breast cancer, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The study revealed that compared to Basal Subtype, a well known marker of poor prognosis for breast cancer, only p53 status was able to independently predict significantly worse survival for African-American women.
African American women have lower breast cancer incidence rates compared to White women, but suffer survival disparity with the highest mortality rates ...continue reading
New research presented at ASCO 2006 in Atlanta
Dr. Keith Dookeran
New research presented by Dr. Keith A. Dookeran at the recent ASCO 2006 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, shows that abnormal levels of the tumor suppressor gene, p53, in breast cancer is more likely to predict survival in African-American than Hispanic or white women.
Dr. Dookeran found that for all races, p53 expression demonstrated similar trends of association and correlation with high grade, hormone receptor negative, aggressive type tumors. Survival between racial groups was not different according to p53 status, however within racial groups, abnormal p53 expression was only able to predict significantly worse survival in African-American women, and this association appeared to be independent of stage and age ...continue reading
New research suggests access, genetic differences play role in high minority cancer death rate
The reason for higher African American cancer death rates may be doctors' failure to recommend appropriate chemotherapy and minorities' ability to access expensive treatment. Or it could be a matter of genetics that predispose some people to hard-to treat tumors.
African Americans have a higher chance of developing cancer and dying than that of any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. But new research, presented at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in April, suggests that both access to health care and a propensity to develop hard-to-treat tumors play a role in the diagnosis and mortality disparities. By Ariel Whitworth - Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 98, No. 10 - May 17, 2006
Read more at JNCI Cancer Spectrum - PDF.
Underserved African-American and White Women with Breast Cancer Have Similar Prognostic Profiles for Estrogen Receptor and Tumor Grade
hopkinsbreastcenter.org - ARTEMIS - May 02, 2006
The racial disparity in breast cancer prognosis and survival may have more to do with socioeconomic status, rather than biological factors, according to a study of women diagnosed and treated at a public hospital. The results were presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Though the population sample was relatively small, including 341 African-American and 94 white women, the results suggest that low economic standing contributes to similarly poor prognostic profiles for tumor grade and estrogen receptor status in both races, according to the researchers ...continue reading