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Keep this study
Lead
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
With
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
The City College of New York
DOWNSTATE MED/KINGS CO/BKLYN
Montefiore Medical Center
OBJECTIVES:
* Establish and evaluate procedures for conducting a hospital-based case-control study of risk factors for endometrial cancer in black women.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.
Participants complete questionnaires about lifestyle factors and their usual diet and measure their waist and hips. Saliva or buccal specimens are collected for future research.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL:
* A total of 30 cases and 30 controls will be accrued for this study.
Age
21–any
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Cases
* Diagnosed with endometrial cancer within the past year
* Self-identified as being black, African-American, black Hispanic, African, or Afro-Caribbean
Healthy controls
* Self-identified as being black, African-American, black Hispanic, African, or Afro-Caribbean
* No history of endometrial or other cancer (except non-melanoma skin cancer)
* No prior hysterectomy
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
Speak English
No medical condition that would make it difficult to complete the interview
