Statements Concerning the 2008 "Cancer Health Disparities Summit"

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Statements Concerning the 2008 'Cancer Health Disparities Summit'

There are still many continuing disparities in the burden of cancer and cancer-death experienced by African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and American Indians, to name a few. Many of the people working to eliminate these disparities attended this year's "Cancer Health Disparities Summit", which was held July 14-16 in Bethesda, Md.

We are offering soundbites from some of those who participated in the Summit. (Statements are available in 96 kbps only.)

For more information about the Summit and about the National Cancer Institute's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, visit http://cancermeetings.org/CHDSummit08 or http://crchd.cancer.gov.

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Dr. Sanya Springfield, director of the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (:22)