Advocates have been invited to submit abstracts on initiatives and programs led by, or in partnership with, patient advocates to help reduce cancer health disparities.

• Juan Adrover: Underlying factors influencing kidney cancer surgical treatment disparities: Patients, non-patient community members and urologists’ perspectives
• Kimlin Ashing: Examining cervical cancer screening rates among women living with HIV in Kajiado County, Kenya
• Kimlin Ashing: Implementing cervical cancer screening services in women living with HIV in Trinidad and Tobago
• Kimlin Ashing: Implementing HPV vaccination services in people living with HIV in Trinidad and Tobago: COVID-19 vaccination may have boosted HPV vaccination
• Kimlin Ashing: Increasing cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV (WLWH) in Jamaica
• Kimlin Ashing: Uptake of prostate cancer screening services in men living with HIV in Trinidad and Tobago
• Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati: Engaging patient advocates in the battle against cancer directly in their communities in culturally and language specific ways
• Reener Balingit: Be your own fan: Who do you get screened for?: A culturally sensitive and community-vetted colorectal cancer awareness campaign tailored for the Filipino community in Los Angeles County
• Karen Basen-Engquist: Partnership in persistent poverty neighborhoods: The Acres Homes Cancer Prevention Collaboration
• Opeyemi Bolajoko: Cancer health equity and research advocacy program among immigrant communities
• Leslie Carnahan: Patient, Provider, and Advocate Perspectives on Factors that Impact Participation of Black Women in Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
• Tobi Cawthra: Building skills for authentic researcher-community collaborations: A curriculum
• Tobi Cawthra: Researcher, Clinician, and Community Focus Groups to Inform an Understanding of Cancer Disparities in the Transgender and Gender Diverse
• Ananya Chakraborty: Mothers Informed Lactation Knowledge and Support (MILKS): Addressing Cancer Disparities through Community Action
• Marjory Charlot: Health related social needs of people with cancer underrepresented in clinical trials: Early experience of the Cancer Research Equity and Advocacy through Engagement Initiative (CREATE) clinical trial patient navigation program
• Kristine Chin: Building a lung cancer awareness event
• Parichoy Pal Choudhury: Contribution of health insurance to racial and ethnic disparities in advanced stage diagnosis of 10 cancers
• Pam Cooper: Community-based prostate cancer screening for Black men
• Julia Devonish: An examination of trust in biomedical research among the Witness Project’s community health workers
• Keegan Duchicela: A nationwide initiative to expand access to lung cancer screening: Results and impact of the Color/American Cancer Society Lung Screening Access Program
• Alexandra Ecklund: “When people don’t look at you as human, then it’s down from there…”: Experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ people treated for cancer and implications for research participation
• Dottington Fullwood: Science of Cancer Survivorship Advocacy: Perspectives from Black Prostate Cancer Survivors
• Jena Funakoshi: So much of everything is rooted and caring for the family:” Community-Informed Colorectal Cancer Screening Education Recommendations for Filipinos in Hawaiʻi
• Iñigo Verduzco Gallo: Improving Access to Genetic Services for Women with Breast Cancer from Underserved Communities in California: Design and Implementation of a Community-Engaged Program
• Lizette Garcia: Development of a multi-cultural HPV-related community engaged cancer awareness and vaccine initiation campaign: Es Tiempo-MICEO Campaign
• Parisa Ghasemi: Beyond the diagnosis: A town hall event to explore Black men’s journey with prostate cancer and sexuality
• Brooke Hensel: Empowering communities: Prostate cancer short training pilot program
• Brooke Hensel: Community scientist research advocacy program: Training our research community
• Farhad Islami: Stage-specific cancer survival in Black and White individuals by urbanicity of county of residence
• Toni Jackson: The Church Study: Bridging the gap in colorectal cancer screening of black patients
• Dongjun Lee: The association of perceived neighborhood environment with physical and mental health status among cancer survivors in the All of Us Research Program
• Jenney Lee: Community-based knowledge-to-action translation to improve early detection of prostate cancer among Black individuals
• Jenney Lee: Multi-Stakeholder Engagement to Create Equity in Prostate Cancer Outcomes through Identifying Community Priorities in Early Detection Research
• Erin Linnenbringer: Engaging Black and African American community members to develop culturally appropriate methods for cancer genetics education, risk assessment, and referral to research studies and clinical services: A community café approach
• Ghecemy Lopez: Be Part of the Cure Clinical Trials Campaign: Koreans, Hispanic/Latino/a/e/x, and Black/African Americans living in Los Angeles County
• Collisa Mahin: Utilizing Community Living Labs (CoLLab) to address prostate cancer disparities in Black men: An innovative partnership with the American Legion Post and Mayo Clinic
• Stacy Mitchell: Addressing health disparities: Success of African American cancer survivors in the ‘Active Living After Cancer’ program and the role of Project CHURCH Partnership
• Breena Mitchell: Increasing clinical research participation and input from underserved communities: Results from community engagement studios inform clinical study design
• Maram Museitif: Exploring underserved cancer survivors’ perspectives on survivorship care at community health centers
• Joni Nelson: A culture of belonging in the pursuit of inclusive excellence
• Colleen Nguyen: Reaching the Community: Collaborating with Black/African American Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients and Advocates
• Jessica Otero: Decentralizing cancer disparities research: Barbershops as a foundation for community outreach and engagement
• Kelly Palmer: A community-based participatory approach to developing a salon-based HPV self-collection intervention
• Minal Patel: Changes in prevalence and correlates of tobacco use in 13 high-risk states in the United States from 2023-2024
• Maria Pisu: Providers and survivors’ perspectives on affordability challenges for gastrointestinal cancer Black and White patients living in socioeconomically disadvantaged US states
• Jeanne Regnante: A community-based organization, health equity uplift and growth alliance for triple negative breast cancer and metastatic breast cancer in young women
• Dorothy Rhoades: Perceptions of lung cancer screening among Native American patients: The Tribally Engaged Approaches to Lung Screening (TEALS) study
• Mya Roberson: Assessing the relationship between family history of cancer and self-perceived cancer risk among Black adults in the United States
• Bianca Rosales: The role of self-confidence among participants in the Community Genetic Navigation Engagement Specialist (CoGENES) Train-the-Trainer Program to implement community-wide training sessions
• Manisha Salinas: Empowering cancer advocates: Evaluating the impact of a comprehensive training program
• Barbara Segarra-Vazquez: Diversifying cancer patient advocate voices to eliminate health disparities
• Zul Surani: Engagement of community advisory board in cancer biology, cancer therapeutics, cancer prevention and control and clinical research for decision making and priority setting
• Victoria Telles: Partnering with community-based organizations to address social needs and improve access to colorectal cancer screening in Los Angeles and Orange County: Findings from key informant interviews
• Nicolette Teufel-Shone: Native American cancer prevention outreach strategies: Approaches developed for outreach teams working with Native Nations and Native American urban communities
• Jamie Thompson: Listen, Empower, Co-Create: Conducting listening sessions to create tailored messages about colorectal health for American Indian communities
• Margaret Tovar: Physical function and fitness of African American prostate cancer survivors at baseline of Men Moving Forward, a lifestyle intervention program
• Samantha Verganza: Designing a Hispanic/Latino community-driven HPV vaccine and HPV-related cancer awareness campaign for young adults and youth in Los Angeles County
• Ariel Washington: ‘We’ve got to go to the doctor and we’re scared to death’: Community members perspectives on sexual orientation and gender identity data collection in healthcare settings
• Calandra Whitted: Facilitating conversations on cancer genomic education: Development of a toolkit for community advisory boards