Cancer Care Across the Continuum
Leadership
Position:
Director of Research, Family & Community Medicine
1015 Walnut Street
Suite 401
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Email:
Randa.Sifri@jefferson.edu
Position:
Associate Director of Research, Family & Community Medicine
1015 Walnut Street
Suite 401
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Email:
Amy.Cunningham@jefferson.edu
Positions:
- Assistant Director of Research
- Assistant Director, Primary Care Research Fellowship
Position:
Family & Community Medicine
Email:
Allison.Casola@jefferson.edu
Mission
The cancer care continuum team within the Department of Family and Community Medicine focuses on patient, provider and community-centered interventions to improve cancer prevention, screening and care across the continuum, particularly in vulnerable populations.
DFCM Research Team
- Randa Sifri, MD (Lead)
- Kristine Swartz, MD
- Lara Weinstein, MD, MPH
- Brooke Worster, MD
Recent Projects
- Lung Cancer Screening in Primary Care (PA Department of Health)
- Breast Cancer Screening in Older Women
- Increasing CRC Screening Among Hispanic Primary Care Patients (Funder: PCORI)
- Increasing Colon Cancer Screening among African Americans in Primary Care (Funder: American Cancer Society)
- Mammogram Decision Support for Formerly Homeless Women with Serious Mental Illness (Funder: American Cancer Society)
- Reasons for CRC screening non-adherence among African Americans in Primary Care (Funder: American Cancer Society)
- Reducing Cancer Disparities by Engaging Stakeholders (RCaDES) (Funder: PCORI)
Selected Publications
- The American Cancer Society public health statement on eliminating combustible tobacco use in the United States
- From guideline to practice: New shared decision-making tools for colorectal cancer screening from the American Cancer Society
- Cancer screening in the United States, 2018: A review of current American Cancer Society guidelines and current issues in cancer screening
- Colorectal cancer screening for average-risk adults: 2018 guideline update from the American Cancer Society
- Schonberg: Overutilization of Breast Cancer Screening in the US
- Recent patterns in shared decision making for prostate-specific antigen testing in the United States
- Role of genetic testing for inherited prostate cancer risk: Philadelphia prostate cancer consensus conference 2017
- Race as a Predictor of Palliative Care Referral Time, Hospice Utilization, and Hospital Length of Stay: A Retrospective Noncomparative Analysis
- Advance care planning: Making it easier for patients (and you)
- Cancer screening in the United States, 2017: A review of current American Cancer Society guidelines and current issues in cancer screening
- Screening for colorectal cancer and evolving issues for physicians and patients: A review
- The American Cancer Society challenge goal to reduce US cancer mortality by 50% between 1990 and 2015: Results and reflections
- Cancer screening navigation : From promising practice to standard of care
- Clinical breast examination and breast cancer screening guideline-Reply
- Cancer screening, prevention, and treatment in people with mental illness