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13 Sep Commentary: Educational and Clinical Training for Addressing Tobacco-Related Cancer Health Disparities.

Sheffer CE1, Webb Hooper M2, Ostroff JS3. Author information 1 Department of Health Behavior; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Buffalo, NY. 2 Case Comprehensive Cancer Center; Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, OH. 3 Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York, NY. Abstract In the United...

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28 Jul Monica Webb Hooper reviews smoking cessation among racial/ethnic minorities

  In this article, Monica Webb Hooper and colleagues systematically review literature on smoking in minority groups published between 2010 and 2014. The article reviews smoking cessation trials and factors associated with cessation. It discusses the different strategies that effectively facilitate smoking cessation in different racial/ethnic groups, as...

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14 Jul Differing treatment options for women smokers

Visit the link below to read about Sophie Davis/CUNY School of Medicine professor Dr. Philip Smith's study on differing treatment options for women smokers. The study, Sex Differences in Smoking Cessation Pharmacotherapy Comparative Efficacy: A Network Meta-analysis, was published earlier this week in the journal "Nicotine &...

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11 Mar SRNT 2016 Conference

TRACC Scholar Daniel Robles and TREND Scholar Alina Shevorykin presented their poster, "Attentional Differences in the Presence of Cigarette Cues Among Smokers, Ex-Smokers, and Non-smokers" at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) conference last week. ...

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20 Jan A Collaborative Approach

Last year (August and November 2015), the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Library partnered with the City College of New York (CCNY) to offer a customized two-part training for CCNY students, as well as staff and other research colleagues collaborating with MSK researchers involved in the Translational...

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