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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002 94(16):1189-1191; doi:10.1093/jnci/94.16.1189
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 16, 1189-1191, August 21, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

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Program Aims to Reduce Cancer Burden in Appalachia

M. J. Friedrich

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The birthplace of bluegrass music, Appalachia evokes images of smoky mountains and hidden "hollers" where dulcimers, fiddles, and mandolins harmonize. But beneath this romantic veneer lies a harsher reality—one that includes a higher cancer burden among its inhabitants.

The Appalachian region is inhabited by about 22 million people living in 406 counties in 13 states—from Mississippi to New York—that straddle the Appalachian Mountains. The majority of Appalachian counties are rural, and cancer death rates in these areas are even more elevated over the national average than are the total Appalachian rates, pointed out Stephen Wyatt, D.M.D., director for cancer control at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, Lexington.


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  		The Appalachian region spans the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. It includes 406 counties in 13 states from Mississippi to New York. (from MMWR 2002; 51:527–9.)

 

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  		Dr. Stephen Wyatt

 
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