America's cancer prevention, treatment, research, and education programs must include Hispanic Americans
✍ Scribed by Henry Stevenson-Perez
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 89 KB
- Volume
- 83
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
During the Sixth Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Underserved and Cancer, several presentations highlighted the unresolved barriers that preclude appropriate levels of Latino participation in the nation's cancer programs. This report summarizes the key demographic data regarding the fastest growing population of eligible U.S. cancer services consumers, Hispanic Americans, as presented in recent federal reports. The barriers that preclude appropriate levels of Latino inclusion in our nation's cancer treatment, prevention, research, and educational programs, likewise, are abstracted from federal sources and from other reports that reflect the national dialogue that has taken place on this topic over the past 5 years.
In the nation, as it enters the second millenium, there will be over 39 million Latinos who expect their fair share of the cancer treatment, research, prevention, and education service that they pay for each year in taxes. However, to date, the