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“Cancer Disparities Among Women: The Role of Tobacco Use”

Monica Webb Hooper, director of the Office of Cancer Disparities Research at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, will give a lecture titled “Cancer Disparities Among Women: The Role of Tobacco Use.”

Hosted by the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, Webb Hooper’s lecture will be held Monday, Oct. 17, at 11:30 a.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, Suite 248.

Webb Hooper is a clinical health psychologist whose research interests are in the health behavior change of cancer risk behaviors, with an emphasis on the intersection between cancer prevention and control, and minority health and disparity elimination.

She also is a professor of oncology, family medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics, and psychological sciences.