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Center for Deaf Health Equity staff present at AACR annual meeting

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Center for Deaf Health Equity staff present at AACR annual meeting

May 16, 2024
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Three staff members of the Center for Deaf Health Equity presented at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting April 5-10 in San Diego. Center director Poorna Kushalnagar, '93; Emmanuel Perrodin-Njoku, and Erika Bergeron, '17, were three of the five authors of a study, "Colorectal cancer screening rates among deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing adults aged 45 to 75 years old. This study was supported by a National Institutes of Health grant to Dr. Kushalnagar.