7th Biennial Symposium on Minorities and Cancer

This project provides support for the 7th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved &Cancer. The Symposium was held February 27-March 3, 1999, at the Grand Hyatt Washington Center, Washington, DC. The overall goals of the symposium series are to:
- exchange the latest scientific and treatment information and to share strategies for reducing the disproportionate incidence of cancer morbidity and mortality among minorities and the medically underserved in the United States;
- enhance the competency of health care providers, laypersons and survivors in the areas of primary and secondary cancer prevention, early detection and treatment; and
- promote culturally competent cancer care and services and ethnically balanced research.

The 7th Biennial Symposium focused on
- Cutting Edge Science;
- Cancer Survivorship Building a Research Agenda for Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Medically Underserved Populations;
- Survivorship;
- Cancer prevention and Control: A Comprehensive Approach Does it Work?;
- Cancer Education Resources Program; and
- Public Policy.

Edited proceedings of the Symposium will be published as a supplement to "CANCER."