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86 new risk factors identified in research co-led by USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. By Wayne Lewis Some racial and ethnic groups suffer relatively more often, and fare worse, from common ailments compared to others. Prostate cancer is one disease where such health disparities occur: Risk for the disease is
Big data studies in diverse populations will offer new insights into cancer risk and help USC investigators target outreach, screening and prevention efforts. Why me? It’s a question doctors hear all the time when they diagnose people with cancer. If only the answer were simple. “Cancer — which is the uncontrolled
Lihua Liu, an associate professor of clinical preventive medicine, has been named the director and principal investigator of USC’s Cancer Surveillance Program (CSP). Established by faculty members in USC’s Department of Preventive Medicine in 1972, the CSP is responsible for recording all cancer diagnoses in Los Angeles County. It is part
The tool, developed by USC researchers, could help identify patients with the most to gain from a clinical trial as well as guide therapeutic targets. Scientists may have found a better way to estimate survival for women with aggressive ovarian cancer, according to a new study by USC researchers and
Young Americans with cancer have a far better prognosis than once thought due to a surprising new discovery about the role of HIV/AIDS, fundamentally altering a long-standing narrative about their cancer mortality, according to new findings by USC scientists.
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed internationally recognized cancer researcher and advocate Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH, as the first associate director of community outreach and engagement.
Adam Leventhal, PhD, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, received the American Cancer Society’s Giants of Science Determination Award Oct. 18 in Beverly Hills for his novel research of the causes, consequences, treatment and prevention of tobacco use and other cancer-causing behaviors.
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, received the “Making a Different World” award at the 6th Biennial National Latino Cancer Summit in San Francisco on July 31.
USC’s efforts in the community include help from health care professionals who already work with residents Yaneth Rodríguez, Rhonda Ragab, Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati and Rosa Barahona, from left (Photo/Courtesy of USC Center for Health Equity in the Americas) USC’s local campaign to encourage Latinas to get tested for cervical cancer extends
The Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program keeps a rich database of cancer data, drawing from a city with a population of more than 10 million people. (Photo/iStock) The National Cancer Institute has awarded Keck School of Medicine of USC and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center $43.7 million to continue tracking
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