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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on February 26, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(5):294-295; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn052
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Following Her Path, Oncologist Highlights Issue of Cancer in Native Americans

Renee Twombly

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When Judith Salmon Kaur, M.D., wants to get a little laugh from an audience of oncologists, she talks about her maiden Choctaw Cherokee surname. "I tell them it's very appropriate to be a salmon and going into cancer research and cancer prevention because you’re always swimming upstream."


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  		Judith Kaur has been influential in increasing awareness of the cancer issues faced by American Indians.

 
But that's not so true nowadays, given the recent recognition of Kaur's research. After decades of studying and treating cancer in American Indians, Kaur is now coauthor of a federal report showing that the progress the country has been making as a whole in reducing cancer is not being generally reflected in American Indian populations. And solving the problem will not be simple because several cancers occur at much higher rates in some tribes than in others.

This information, from the Annual Report to the Nation on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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