S . LANI PARK
Welcome new associate researcher Population Sciences in the Pacific Program , Cancer Epidemiology
IDENTIFYING POPULATIONS AT GREATEST RISK OF
LUNG CANCER WILL
HELP TO REDUCE THE UNEQUAL BURDEN OF
TOBACCO USE AND LUNG CANCER
INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY IN MINORITY POPULATIONS.”
- S . LANI PARK
S . Lani Park , PhD , focuses her research on identifying genetic , health behavioral , and environmental risk factors for cancer . She has been contributing to and working with the Multiethnic Cohort ( MEC ) study for more than ten years .
Park and collaborators developed the MEC substudy of current smokers (> 100 cigarettes over a lifetime ), which compiles a comprehensive panel of urinary tobacco smoking-related biomarkers and data . This substudy is a resource that aims to expand the understanding of biological mechanisms that drive the population differences in smoking-related lung cancer risk .
Park and her team were awarded a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health to evaluate whether there are molecular differences in lung tumor tissue across racial / ethnic populations in the MEC . The research may help to identify whether there are underlying differences in lung tumor biology .
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