title: Recommendations for Cancer Epidemiologic Research in Understudied Populations and Implications for Future Needs.
abstract: Medically underserved populations in the United States continue to experience higher cancer burdens of incidence, mortality, and other cancer-related outcomes. It is imperative to understand how health inequities experienced by diverse population groups may contribute to our increasing unequal cancer burdens and disparate outcomes. The National Cancer Institute convened a diverse group of scientists to discuss research challenges and opportunities for cancer epidemiology in medically underserved and understudied populations. This report summarizes salient issues and discusses five recommendations from the group, including the next steps required to better examine and address cancer burden in the United States among our rapidly increasing diverse and understudied populations. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 25(4); 573-80. ©2016 AACR SEE ALL ARTICLES IN THIS CEBP FOCUS SECTION, "MULTILEVEL APPROACHES TO ADDRESSING CANCER HEALTH DISPARITIES".
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. martinda@mail.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Damali N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: Tram Kim
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: Katy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Brignole
authors.affiliation: Center for Community Alliance for Research and Education, City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, California.
authors.forename: Kimlin T
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Ashing
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee. International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, Maryland.
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Blot
authors.affiliation: Native American Cancer Research Corporation, Denver, Colorado. Native American Cancer Initiatives, Incorporated, Colorado.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Burhansstipanov
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Jarvis T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dignan
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California. Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, California.
authors.forename: Scarlett Lin
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Gomez
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
authors.forename: Maria Elena
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matthews
authors.affiliation: Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Julie R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.affiliation: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: Eliseo J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Perez-Stable
authors.affiliation: College for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schootman
authors.affiliation: Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine/Burrell Institute for Health Policy & Research, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
authors.forename: Hugo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vilchis
authors.affiliation: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vu
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: Shobha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Srinivasan
mesh_terms: D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*