Event Description

Minority, immigrant, and disadvantaged populations in the U.S. continue to experience an excessive cancer burden not only due to barriers in access to health care and cultural barriers, but also due to distinct carcinogen and pathogen exposures, environmentally induced stress, co-morbidities, and ancestry-related risk factors. These factors, singularly or in combination, are the likely causes of the existing cancer health disparities in the U.S. and globally. There is strong evidence from migration studies that the environment defines cancer risk but there is also evidence that population differences in genetic ancestry can lead to population differences in cancer susceptibility. One mechanism by which environmental and ancestry-related factors affect health outcomes is by inducing an adverse tumor biology.

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