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Siteman Cancer Center began services at Christian Hospital in North St. Louis County July 1, 2017. With this expansion, the Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) will be able to ramp up community outreach and engagement in North County to better serve our community members. While PECaD already participates and engages with North […]

PECaD is excited to announce two events for our 2017 “Smart Health: Cancer Community Education Day.” Our East St. Louis, Illinois, Smart Health Day is scheduled for Saturday, June 17. The event will take place at Southern Mission Missionary Baptist Church located at 2801 State St., East St Louis, IL 62205. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and programming will […]

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. To help understand the importance of screening recommendations and options, The Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) asked Jean Wang, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, to discuss who should be screened and what screening options are available […]

The PECaD team is excited and pleased to announce new resources available to community members! Prostate Cancer Resource Guide – This new resource guide for patients, family members and caregivers outlines prostate cancer. It covers educational information such as what prostate cancer is, the screening recommendations, the importance of knowing family health history, questions about […]

Molly Tovar, EdD, is the director of the Kathryn M. Buder Center of American Indian Studies and professor of practice at the Brown School of School Work at Washington University in St. Louis. She also sits on The Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) Disparities Elimination Advisory Committee as a voting institution member. Dr. […]

The Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities’ (PECaD’s) relationship with the Kathryn M. Buder Center has allowed for continued growth of reaching American Indian and Alaskan Native women to help with cancer prevention, education and screenings. In an effort to be inclusive, PECaD’s education messaging and outreach campaign will now include two American Indian women […]

Throughout The Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities’ (PECaD’s) history, breast cancer has been a top focus of community education and outreach in addition to continued prevention research. PECaD is proud to announce that for the past six months, community members along with PECaD faculty and staff have been working to revitalize the Breast Cancer […]

Rural health is becoming a higher priority research topic in recent years, particularly around rural cancer diagnosis. PECaD faculty member Dr. Sarah Gehlert has been conducting research in rural Missouri to address cancer disparities in childhood cancer patients and how it affects the patient, family and physician. A major motive for conducting rural cancer research […]

Melody Goodman, PhD, assistant professor of surgery and faculty adviser for PECaD, received an award from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and will be the principal investigator for the project, Developing and Validating Quantitative Measures to Assess Community Engagement in Research: Addressing the Measurement Challenge. Dr. Goodman’s award is a three-year project for $1 million […]

PECaD is excited to help announce and share information for the newly formed Prostate Cancer Coalition. The coalition is a group of prostate cancer physicians, researchers, and community members who are passionate about educating men and family members about the risk of prostate cancer, especially in African-American males. The coalition began with physician education and […]

PECaD welcomes our 2016 summer students to the team! Bola Adeniran is a 2nd year master of public health student at Washington University in St. Louis. Bola is specializing in policy and believes it is the driving force of change for all people regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, age, and socioeconomic status. She understands change […]

Bettina Drake, PhD, MPH, has been promoted to associate professor of surgery in the Division of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Drake, who joined the faculty in 2009, is a cancer epidemiologist at the School of Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center. Her research interests are in reducing cancer disparities by focusing on cancer-prevention strategies and utilizing […]

The Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies is teaming up with PECaD to address cancer disparities in the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population. In the St. Louis region, there are roughly 11,968 American Indians and 181 Alaska Natives, but no resources specifically serving AI/AN women.  Among these women, breast cancer is the […]

The Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center will host its 4th “Smart Health: Cancer Community Education Day” on Saturday, May 28, 2016 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Harris Stowe State University (Minority Serving Institution in the city of St. Louis). […]

The Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) is excited to announce and present new community member faces and stories as part of diversifying our marketing campaign. In November 2015, we announced we were working on adding active PECaD members into our community outreach campaign by highlighting individuals who are passionate about reducing cancer […]

PECaD congratulates Aimee James, PhD, MPH, on receiving a 3-year, $1.14 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The grant, Understanding and addressing cost-related nonadherence to medication: A mixed method multi-phase study, will build off of previous work that found low-income patients used several strategies to cope with high medical costs […]

Written by Hardy Ware and Linda Joiner Smoking remains the number one cause of preventable death, costing the United States billions of dollars each year. Oral or pharyngeal cancer will be diagnosed in an estimated 35,000 Americans this year, and will cause approximately 7,500 deaths. On average, 60 percent of those with the disease will […]

Bettina Drake, PhD, MPH, associate professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine’s Division of Public Health Sciences, will be presenting at the St. Louis Public Library Schlafly Branch on Feb. 17, 2016 from 6 -7:30 p.m. Her presentation, Combatting Cancer, is part of the Schlafly Lecture Series. Dr. Drake will discuss cancer prevention […]

Melody Goodman, PhD, assistant professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine’s Division of Public Health Sciences, has been appointed to the St. Louis City Board of Health. In this role, Dr. Goodman will help advise the Commissioner of Health on public health issues facing St. Louis City. Dr. Goodman was appointed in November […]

PCCP and community members, from left: Dr. Leon Ashford, Dr. Bettina Drake, Danielle Rancillo, Elmer Vital, Dr. Arnold Bullock, Dr. Keon Gilbert & Dewey Helms. The Prostate Cancer Community Partnership (PCCP) partnered with Siteman Cancer Center to provide free PSA testing and prostate cancer education at the annual 100 Black Men Prostate Cancer Walk and […]

2015 marked 10 years for The Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD). PECaD, a National Cancer Institute funded program, works to eliminate cancer disparities through cancer prevention and treatment. To celebrate 10 years of accomplishment and collaboration in the community, PECaD hosted an evening of achievement on Sept. 15, 2015, presenting updates, overviews […]

Our longstanding tradition of placing cancer prevention education ads in The St. Louis American newspaper continued in 2015. Through this outreach platform, PECaD is able to impact nearly 254,000 readers throughout the St. Louis Metro Area each week. The latest 10-month campaign featured people involved with PECaD (academic faculty, staff and community members) sharing stories […]