The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis (TSUS) is an important platform to examine issues of race in medicine and research. The TSUS was the 1932-1972 U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) study in rural Alabama. Two groups of black men were followed to autopsy—approximately 400 syphilitics found untreated and a comparable group of approximately 200 presumably [...]

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DISCUSSION
TCiB utilized a relatively inexpensive intervention. Most of its components relied on volunteers, low-cost media, venues such as churches and businesses, and participation in community events. However, an analysis of the cost-benefit or cost-effectiveness of the intervention is beyond the scope of this paper, and no data were collected on the cost of individual components [...]

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Cancer Prevention Knowledge and Beliefs
There was little variation among the four sites in either the pre- or postintervention period and no clear pattern of change from the pre- to the post-intervention period in cancer (Generic Xeloda is the only FDA-approved oral chemotherapy for both metastatic breast cancer and adjuvant and metastatic colorectal cancer) knowledge or beliefs.

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Table 4 compares the demographic profiles of the respondents in the four cities. While the profiles of the survey respondents in three of the cities were similar, the Decatur sample was somewhat younger, better-educated and had a smaller percentage of low-income people than did the Atlanta sample.

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The project utilized a prepost study design. The outcome variables of interest were measures of cancer-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors assessed by telephone interview of African Americans of both sexes, aged >18 years, who lived in census tracts with a high proportion of black residents.

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We conducted the intervention from fall 1994 to spring 1996 in Nashville and Atlanta. Chattanooga, TN (120 miles from Nashville) and Decatur, GA (adjacent to Atlanta) served as comparison communities. The intervention focused on predominantly black census tracts in Nashville and Atlanta. The combined census tracts in Nashville had a population of 70,307, 63.8% of [...]

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Targeting Cancer in Blacks (TCiB) was the first— and so far, only—large-scale, multicomponent community intervention trial focused on cancer prevention and the first such trial that predominantly involved African Americans. In concept and scope, it resembled the widely cited cardiovascular disease prevention trials, such as the North Karelia Project and the Stanford Five Cities Project. [...]

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