All Posts: cancer prevention

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Ralph Lauren Center Pastoral Initiative Collaborates with Local Churches to Offer Cancer Education and Screening

Community outreach and engagement is a priority for the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and as its…

September 18, 2025

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New Study: Analysis Supports New Recommendation to Begin Mammogram Screening at 40

Georgetown Lombardi’s Jeanne Mandelblatt, MD, MPH, and Amy Trentham-Dietz, PhD, of University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, were lead authors of a study informing the…

April 30, 2024

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Computer Models Fill Critical Knowledge Gaps To Help Reduce Cancer Disparities

Reducing health disparities in incidence and mortality for major types of cancers can be aided by sophisticated computer modeling efforts, according to new, wide-ranging…

November 8, 2023

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Georgetown Announces New Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention To Address Health Disparities in Washington, D.C.

Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s newly dedicated Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention brings renewed hope that those who have been historically underserved in the…

April 19, 2023

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Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation Makes Gift to Address Disparities in Cancer Care

May 11, 2022

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Smoking, Tobacco Use Among Teens Continues to Drop Even as Use of E-cigs Grows

December 2, 2020