NAACCReview

Paulo Pinheiro, MD, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor Epidemiology, University of Nevada Las Vegas (NAACCR Committee Member)
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial/ethnic group in the United States.

Sergio A. Acuna, MD, PhD Student – Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research Institute of Health Policy Management and Education
Although solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) are at greater risk of developing some cancers than the general population, because they are also at increased risk of mortality from non-cancer causes, the effect of transplantation on cancer mortality was unclear.

Lihua Liu, PhD., Assistant Professor, Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program (NAACCR Committee Member)
With its large and diverse population, the Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program has always emphasized the importance of monitoring cancer trends and patterns among racial/ethnic populations.

Holly J. Kulhawick, CTR, Supervisor, Cancer Registry, Renown Health
Casefinding is an ongoing struggle for most hospital registries that translates into headaches for their associated Central Registries.

Armen Ghazarian, MPH, Cancer Research Training Award Fellow, National Cancer Institute
The incidence of testicular cancer, the most commonly occurring cancer among young men in the United States, has long been higher among white men than men of racial/ethnic groups.

Almost 20 percent of the people in low-income communities who die of colon cancer could have been saved with early screening. And those premature deaths take a toll on communities that can least bear it.

The NAACCReview has been live for 6 months now and has been averaging a post every two weeks or so. Our small Editorial Board is looking for a few more members to allow us to increase this frequency.

Rebecca Cassady, RHIA, CTR, Director, Desert Sierra Cancer Surveillance Program (NAACCR Committee Member)
This article regarding the increase of contralateral prophylactic mastectomies (CPM) in male breast cancer patients is significant as it may change the clinical practice for male breast cancer patients.

Amy Kahn, MS, Research Scientist, New York State Cancer Registry (NAACCR Committee Member)
Central Cancer Registries from throughout the U.S. have been collaborating with researchers at the National Cancer Institute’s Intramural Research Program

One in three women diagnosed with ovarian cancer will live for 10 years or more, according to a new study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology — good news, considering ovarian cancer has long been considered highly fatal.