Espa?ol
PDFs by language
Our 24/7 cancer helpline provides information and answers for people dealing with cancer. We can connect you with trained cancer information specialists who will answer questions about a cancer diagnosis and provide guidance and a compassionate ear.?
Chat live online
Select the?Live?Chat button at the bottom of the page?
Call us at?1-800-227-2345
Available any time of day or night
Our highly trained specialists are available 24/7 via phone and on weekdays can assist through online chat.?We connect patients, caregivers, and family members with essential services and resources at every step of their cancer journey. Ask us how you can get involved and support the fight against cancer. Some of the topics we can assist with include:
For medical questions, we encourage you to review our information with your doctor.
Almost 1 out of 5 cases of cancer are related to dietary behaviors and excess body weight, especially colorectal, liver, and pancreatic cancer. And the cases of those cancers are not equally distributed through all populations.
Compared with White men, African American/Black men have a risk for developing and dying from colorectal cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, stomach cancer, and prostate cancer. People who are American Indian/Alaskan Natives or Hispanic/Latinx are at a higher risk for developing liver cancer.
Improving dietary behaviors can lead to substantial savings in healthcare costs and reduce inequities in the development of cancer in under-resourced communities.
The challenge is that minority populations who live where income is low tend to face high barriers to healthy eating. There are fewer grocery stores in such communities and more convenience stores that don’t sell as many healthy foods like fresh fruits and vegetables.
One way to start making healthy foods more accessible is through policy changes. Policy makers can support programs that improve the local food environment where it’s needed and incentivize healthy food purchases.
This graphic from Lisa Tussing-Humphreys, PhD, article in TBM, shows how policymakers’ decisions to fund incentive plans at multiple levels can lead to improvements in the availability of food, or the food environment. It then shows how those improvements can reduce the barriers in areas where healthier foods have been harder to get and afford, which ultimately can help reduce cancer inequities based on race/ethnicity, income, and region.
American Cancer Society research grantee Lisa Tussing-Humphreys, PhD, is the senior author on a Translational Behavioral Medicine (TBM) article that urges policymakers to “.”?
It is too early to know how programs supported by the Agricultural Act of 2018 affected the long-term health of populations who have a higher risk of cancer due to their race/ethnicity, income, or the region they live in. But early outcomes have been largely positive. Over 70% of customers interviewed after the implementation of a Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) project reported buying more fruits and vegetables because it was easier to find them at the store. Consumers participating in nutrition incentive programs like The Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) eat more fruits and vegetables, have greater food security, and see overall improvements in their health.”
Lisa Tussing-Humphreys, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
大象tv Grantee
She and her co-authors urge policymakers to:
Establishing policies that expand access to healthy food options in underserved communities is a crucial step towards health equity and cancer prevention. Strategies that reduce the population burden of cancer will also decrease healthcare costs and cancer disparities.
?
? ??? ?
If this was helpful, donate to help fund patient support services, research, and cancer content updates.