The initiative, called VOICES of Black Women, is believed to be the first long-term population study of its size to zero in specifically on the factors driving cancer prevalence and deaths among Black women.
Researchers plan to enroll 100,000 Black women without cancer, ages 25 to 55, in Washington, D.C., and 20 states where most Black American women reside, surveying them twice a year about behaviors, environmental exposures, life experiences, and tracking any cancers developed over 30 years.
Previous studies by the American Cancer Society identified critical cancer causes like cigarette smoking and red- and processed-meat consumption, but did not focus on specific drivers of cancer in the Black women population.
"So going deeply into the lived experiences of discrimination, bias, systematic issues, environmental influences, and cultural aspects of health-related behaviors, and how the narratives around them are shaped in different populations - those types of unique aspects of understanding what contributes to cancer in..."
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