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Food Insecurity Among People With Cancer: Nutritional Needs as an Essential Component of Care.
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Weight loss attempts in a racially diverse sample of primary care patients.
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Genetic counseling among minority populations in the era of precision medicine.
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Ever and Annual Use of Prostate Cancer Screening in African American Men.
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Beliefs about Genetically Targeted Care in African Americans.
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Social Networks Across Common Cancer Types: The Evidence, Gaps, and Areas of Potential Impact.
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Health-related quality of life in Black breast cancer survivors with and without triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
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A comparative effectiveness education trial for lifestyle health behavior change in African Americans.
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Discordance in perceived risk and epidemiological outcomes of prostate cancer among African American men.
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Provider Advice About Weight Loss in a Primary Care Sample of Obese and Overweight Patients.
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Systems analysis of the prostate transcriptome in African-American men compared with European-American men.
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The Association between Smoking Abstinence and Mortality in the National Lung Screening Trial.
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Conducting Precision Medicine Research with African Americans.
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Understanding participation by African Americans in cancer genetics research.
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Low rates of African American participation in genetic counseling and testing for BRCA1/2 mutations: racial disparities or just a difference?
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The influence of health care policies and health care system distrust on willingness to undergo genetic testing.
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Using a mixed-methods approach to identify health concerns in an African American community.
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Cultural, economic, and psychological predictors of colonoscopy in a national sample.
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Black and White adults' perspectives on the genetics of nicotine addiction susceptibility.
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Long-term reactions to genetic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations: does time heal women's concerns?
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Community health worker intervention to decrease cervical cancer disparities in Hispanic women.
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Effects of integrated risk counseling for cancer and cardiovascular disease in African Americans.
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Racial differences in quality of life following prostate cancer diagnosis.
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Participation rates and representativeness of African Americans recruited to a health promotion program.
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Racial differences in medical mistrust among men diagnosed with prostate cancer.
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Predictors of enrollment in a smoking cessation clinical trial after eligibility screening.
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Utilization of religious coping strategies among African American women at increased risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.
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Introduction to the special section on cancer disparities.
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Recruitment of minority and underserved populations in the United States: the Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities experience.
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Why do those who request smoking treatment fail to attend the first appointment?
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Differences in the patterns of health care system distrust between blacks and whites.
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Retention of African American women in cancer genetics research.
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Beliefs about tobacco use in African Americans.
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Predictors of participation in a smoking cessation program among young adult smokers.
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Knowledge about genetics among African Americans.
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Expanding the obesity research paradigm to reach African American communities.
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Genetic counseling and testing for breast cancer risk in African Americans.
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Racial differences in trust in health care providers.
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Intentions to participate in genetics research among African American smokers.
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Genetic testing for colon cancer among African-Americans in North Carolina.
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Genetics, epidemiology, and cancer disparities: is it black and white?
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Genetic testing for inherited breast cancer risk in African Americans.
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Recruiting African American women to participate in hereditary breast cancer research.
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Utilization of BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation testing in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients.
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Psychological functioning in African American women at an increased risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.
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Attitudes about genetic testing and genetic testing intentions in African American women at increased risk for hereditary breast cancer.
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Predictors of cognitive appraisals following genetic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.
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Colon cancer screening practices following genetic testing for hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC) mutations.
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Decisions and outcomes of genetic testing for inherited breast cancer risk.
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