The study “Social Determinants of Health Associated with Cervical Cancer-Related Care Across the Cancer Control Continuum Among Women Living with HIV in Puerto Rico” (NIGMS Grant #1P20GM148324-01) aims to explore the impact of social determinants of health (SDoH) on the continuum of cervical cancer care (screening, diagnosis, and treatment) in people living with HIV in…
The Special Issue of /Cancers/ “Cancer Screening and Primary Care” is now open for submission. I invite you or one of your colleagues to contribute an original research or review article. Cancers is an international peer-reviewed, open-access journal of oncology, published semi-monthly online by MDPI. The impact factor of the journal is 4.5 (2023). Special…
The Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Puerto Rico (CCCUPR) successfully concluded the inaugural session of its scientific research training program, known as the “Cancer Prevention and Control Research Training Program” (CAPAC). “The CAPAC participants had the opportunity to present their findings from cancer research projects they worked on over the summer, under the…
The University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC) is proud to announce its second NIH-sponsored cancer training program, the Research Education Program on Microbes, Infections, and Cancer (REPMIC), funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) with a grant of $1,853,572. This program is designed to train young Puerto Rican researchers in topics…
The California-Mexico-Puerto Rico (CAMPO) Consortium (part of the National Cancer Institute-funded US-Latin American-Caribbean HIV/HPV-Cancer Prevention Clinical Trials Network [ULACNet, NCI grant # U54CA242646) conducts clinical trials (CTs) to prevent HPV-related cancers among people living with HIV (PLWH) in Mexico and Puerto Rico (PR). In PR, the CAMPO study is led by Dr. Ana Patricia Ortiz,…