Importance of Separate Mammogram Guidelines for African-American Women Highlighted in NPR Story
(December 7, 2009) The ICC Caucus supports separate mammogram guidelines for higher risk populations like African-American women. This need was highlighted in a National Public Radio (NPR) story which included an interview with ICC Co-Founder Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D.
Read the NPR article and listen to the Morning Edition story.

With the inauguration of Barack H. Obama as the 44th President of the United Sates on January 20, 2009 the CHANGE.GOV Web site of the president-elect was replaced by WHITEHOUSE.GOV. We encourage you to visit the site, review the President's health care agenda, and share with the new administration your concerns regarding elimination of the unequal burden of cancer among racial and ethnic minorities and medically underserved populations in the US and its associated territories.

(April 3, 2008 - Washington, DC) With mounting evidence that many Americans remain the invisible people with cancer who don’t get regular screening examinations, smoke at higher rates, are frequently diagnosed after their cancer has spread and, therefore, die more frequently and more quickly from this disease, the ICC Caucus issued a new 12-step action plan at the Intercultural Cancer Council's 11th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved and Cancer. The plan outlines how the Administration and the U.S. Congress can begin to help those cancer patients who are falling through the cracks of the healthcare system. Titled From Awareness to Action: A Renewed Call to Eliminate the Unequal Burden of Cancer, this national call to action provides realistic goals for helping racial and ethnic minorities, those living in rural areas, the elderly and the poor who remain at greatest risk for developing and dying from cancer. Specifically, the plan addresses a widening gap in cancer care among American Indians and Alaskan Natives and those living in the out islands of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa and other Pacific Islands, who now have cancer incidence and death rates similar to third world countries.
Read what others are saying about our new call to action . . .
Indian Country Today
Nation's Health (American Public Health Association)

The Intercultural Cancer Council's quarterly newsletter, theVoice, includes an "Advocacy in Action" column by Caucus President, Jennie R. Cook. Following her column is good way to learn more about the work of the Caucus.
You can read the current and previous issues of the newsletter at . . .
http://iccnetwork.org/thevoice/