Research Highlights

While access to healthcare information is key to keeping communities healthy, there are many barriers preventing people—particularly from underserved communities—from fully engaging with important health topics....

Dr. Eunji Choi, assistant professor of population health sciences, has received a K01 award from the National Institute on Aging for her research on aging-related clinical decline in lung cancer survivors. The K01...

Evidence suggests that plasma C-peptide, a measure of endogenous insulin production, may have mitotic effects on normal and neoplastic breast epithelial cells. It may also stimulate the proliferation of human...

It has been shown that dietary patterns promoting chronic inflammation, including the empirical dietary inflammatory pattern (EDIP), are associated with risk of weight gain, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer, and breast cancer. Empirical dietary inflammatory pattern (EDIP) score is a food-based dietary index that can be used to...

Lung cancer survivors are at significant risk of developing second primary lung cancer (SPLC), with an incidence of four to six times greater than that of developing initial primary lung cancer (IPLC) in the general population. While prior studies have shown racial and ethnic disparities in the incidence and mortality of initial lung cancer,...