Reports and Fact Sheets

Select NCI/NIH Reports

• CRCHD’s Patient Navigation Research Program highlighted in Parade Magazine
  See this Parade article (March 30th issue) for an excellent overview of PNRP and patient navigation benefits.
• Cancer Health Disparities: Questions and Answers
  Fact sheet providing an overview of current cancer disparity statistics and information.
• NCI Special Report: A Journey of Discovery
  Learn about NCI’s training and fellowship programs that recruit minority researchers and investigators, with in-depth profiles of young minority investigators from NCI’s intramural and extramural programs.
• Cancer Trends Progress Report: 2007 Update
  Includes key measures of progress along the cancer control continuum and uses national trend data to illustrate where advances have been made.
• American Indian Cancer Incidence Report
  Provides useful data on various cancer types and risk factors among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
• 2007 CRCHD Cancer Health Disparities Summit Final Report
  Provides highlights of the opinion health disparities research and groundbreaking endeavors from Summit ‘07, including insights from media experts on how to effectively interact with minority media outlets. View the Report (PDF)
• Economic Costs of Cancer Health Disparities Report
  Identify methodological and philosophical issues involved in filling the gap in our understanding of the economic costs of cancer health disparities from these proceedings and recommendations. View the Report (PDF)
• The Special Populations Networks: Achievements and Lessons Learned 2000-2005 (Supplement to CANCER Volume 107 Issue S8)
  Provides highlights of the activities and accomplishments of the Special Populations Networks (SPN) program, a five-year, nationwide NCI-funded project to reduce cancer health disparities in minority and underserved populations.
• Enhancing Interactions to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: An NCI-wide Workshop
  Overarching action objectives and action plans for reducing cancer health disparities are summarized from the two-day NCI workshop held on the NIH campus in November 2005.
• Excess Cervical Cancer Mortality
  Find recommendations addressing the components of the cervical cancer problem, critical needs, and suggested actions to meet those needs. Item Number T077
• Voices of a Broken System: Real People, Real Problems: President's Cancer Panel Report
  Historic document summarizing the results of the town meetings held throughout the United States during 2000 to learn about cancer care problems faced by cancer patients. Item Number P993

Other Government Reports

• Healthy People 2010
• National Healthcare Disparities Report
• HHS Fact Sheet: Eliminating Minority Health Disparities