Research on Women and Minorities
Forty-three percent (23 of 53) of the research projects that the CBCRP funded in 2009 studied either women or tissues from women. The remaining 57 percent were laboratory studies that did not directly involve women or tissues from women.
Of the 23 research projects that involved women or tissues from women, 91 percent (21) had women as participants in the study.
Out of the (21) studies that included women:
- Ninety percent, (19) research projects include minority women in the study.
- Thirty-three percent, (7) are focused on minority women.
- Thirty-eight percent, (8) are focused on underserved women.
A total of eight projects were funded with a primary emphasis on minority and/or underserved women:
Sister Survivor: Evaluating Best Practices in Social Support
Kimlin Ashing-Giwa, Ph.D., Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope and Carolyn Tapp, Women of Color Breast Cancer Survivors Support Project
Nuevo Amanecer: Promoting the Psychosocial Health of Latinas
Anna Napoles-Springer, Ph.D., M.PH., University of California, San Francisco and Carmen Ortiz, Ph.D., Circulo de Vida Cancer Support and Resource Center
Risk Factors and Breast Cancer Survival in Black/White Women
Yani Lu, M.D., Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope
Macrophages in Breast Cancer Patients of African Descent
Rita Mukhtar, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Health Literacy in Older Patient's Breast Cancer Treatment
Arash Naeim, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Breast Cancer Risk Reduction: A Patient-Doctor Intervention
Celia Kaplan, Dr.P.H., University of California, San Francisco
Demographic Questions for California Breast Cancer Research
Scarlett Lin Gomez, Ph.D., Northern California Cancer Center
Race & Ethnicity in Stage-specific Breast Cancer Survival
Leslie Bernstein,, Ph.D., Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope;
Katherine Henderson, Ph.D., Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope;
Esther John, Ph.D., Northern California Cancer Center;
Marilyn Kwan, Ph.D., Kaiser Foundation Research Institute;
Kristine Monroe, Ph.D., University of Southern California; and
Anna Wu, Ph.D., University of Southern California
