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Session: Gender-Specific Cancer Epidemiology
4125.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Gender-Specific Cancer Epidemiology
This interesting session will focus on gender-specific cancer epidemiology. These cancers will breast cancer in women, prostate cancer, and ovarian cancer. In addition, there will be a presentation about health behaviors in women with and without a history of cancer.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Understand which modifiable behaviors or beliefs could reduce present cancer burden in women 2. Describe the method of transgeographic anomalous community analysis 3. Understand the importance of breast cancer screening 4. Describe the relationship between metabolic syndrome and prostate cancer in men 5. Discuss and compare the current self-reported follow-up practices of gynecologists managing patients after initial treatment for Stage I ovarian cancer
Moderator(s):Susan Farner, PhD
12:30 PMHealth behavior correlates of women with and without cancer histories  [ Recorded presentation ]
Ray Marks, EdD, Haean Ok, EdD, John Allegrante, PhD
12:45 PMEnriching the theoretical basis for understanding black-white disparities in US breast cancer mortality  [ Recorded presentation ]
Robert S. Levine, Barbara Kilbourne, Shanita Williams-Brown, Lee Caplan, PhD, Baqar Husaini, PhD, George Rust
1:00 PMMetabolic Syndrome and Risk of Prostate Cancer: NHANES 2001-2002 Results
Aruna V. Sarma, PhD, Lauren P. Wallner, MPH, Stephanie Daignault, MS, John T. Wei, MD, MS
1:15 PMFollow-up practices of gynecologists after initial treatment of ovarian cancer
Sapoora Manshaii, MD, Katherine Virgo, PhD, MBA, Randall Gibb, MD, David Mutch, MD, Yen N. Quang, Ivy Lawson, Frank E. Johnson, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Epidemiology
Endorsed by:APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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