On this ALCSI podcast, Dr. Estelamari Rodriguez talks about her experience leading Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center's lung cancer screening program. Their lung cancer screening program serves a significant portion of racial minorities (particularly Hispanic patients), and she shares the strategies the program has implemented to educate community members, increase the lung cancer screening rate, and reduce attrition rates.
Dr. Estelamari Rodriguez is Associate Director of Community Outreach and Co-Lead of the Thoracic Site Disease Group of the NCI-designated Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She has a special interest in the early detection of lung cancer and supervises the lung cancer screening program at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is also an active member of of the Experimental Therapeutics Program.
Dr. Rodriguez received her bachelors degree from Columbia College and her medical degree from State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate College of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at Columbia University’s New York-Presbyterian Hospital and her medical oncology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rodriguez also has a master’s degree in Public Health from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. She has given numerous lectures as invited speaker on issues related to lung cancer and healthcare disparities.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the world. Large clinical trials have shown that lung cancer screening through low-dose computed tomography (CT) reduces lung cancer mortality by up to 33%. In fact, if every high-risk American were to get screened right now, thousands of lives could be saved this year alone. However, less than 6% of high-risk Americans are currently getting screened. Visit our website at [ Ссылка ] for free educational resources and webinars on lung cancer and lung cancer screening.
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