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Hispanics suffer higher rates of certain cancers, including cervical cancer and childhood leukemia, than other groups.
That is one of the reasons behind Lifelines, a series of cancer education articles, videos and audio files from the National Cancer Institute’s Multicultural Media Outreach (MMO) program.
The Lifelines series, in both English and Spanish, addresses cancer prevention, treatment, survivorship, health disparities, clinical trials and other cancer-related topics for African-American, Hispanic, Asian American and Pacific Islander and Native American populations.
- Lifelines Videos feature videos on a wide range of topics, including colorectal, breast, and cervical cancer, tobacco use and lung cancer, complementary and alternative medicine, and nutrition and cancer risk.
- Lifelines Audio Files are a series of 60-second audio segments on cancer topics that can be downloaded and broadcast for free on ethnic radio outlets or posted on websites that reach minority audiences.
- Lifelines Profiles feature a behind-the-scenes look at the people behind the science, like global health researcher Jorge Gomez.
Check out Dr. Amelie Ramirez, director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind SaludToday, in a Lifelines video about the need for Latino participation in clinical trials and a Lifelines audio piece, Cancer Care and the Affordable Care Act (Hispanics).
Stay up with the Lifelines series by following @NCImcMedia on Twitter or YouTube.
By The Numbers
25.1
percent
of Latinos remain without health insurance coverage
