National Lung Cancer Roundtable (NLCRT) Annual Meeting 2024
Start: December 9, 2024 7:00 AM (ET) End: December 10, 2024 1:00 PM (ET) SCHEQ is attending the NLCRT 2024 Annual Meeting. The NLCRT membership consists of a nationwide coalition of more than 220 professional and national societies, cancer centers, government agencies, research groups, advocacy and policy organizations, and corporate associates that convenes to work […]
Helen Rodriguez-Trias, MD
Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias was a physician, public health expert, women’s rights activist, and the first Latina leader of the American Public Health Association. She used the experiences of bias and racism that she observed to drive her activism in women’s health and helping disadvantaged populations.
Carlos Juan Finlay, MD
Born in 1833 in Cuba, Carlos Juan Finlay was a physician and scientist credited with discovering that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. Both of Finlay’s parents were European and he pursued his early education in France. Finlay earned his Medical Degree from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1855. During his medical studies, he befriended and […]
Dr. Sophia Bethena Jones
Dr. Sophia Bethena Jones was a Canadian born physician and Canada’s first black woman to earn a medical degree.
NHANES analysis shows that exposure to endocrine-disruptors may play a role in breast, ovarian, skin, and uterine cancers.
This study by Cathey et al., (2023) looked at NHANES data and showed that women with previous exposure to PFAs, phenols, and parabens had worse prognosis for endocrine-disruptor mediated cancers. High exposure to PFAs were linked to prior melanoma diagnoses. PFA was also linked with prior uterine cancer diagnosis, while high phenol exposure was associated with […]