{"id":122442,"date":"2026-02-24T21:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122442\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:47:14","slug":"american-cancer-society-hopes-to-improve-health-care-with-voices-of-black-women-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122442\/","title":{"rendered":"American Cancer Society hopes to improve health care with Voices of Black Women study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByTimothy Walton  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WPVI logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/origin-wpvi.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, February 24, 2026 3:04PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"American Cancer Society hopes to improve health care through study\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; The American Cancer Society hopes to improve health care with its Voices of Black Women study. The goal is to follow 100,000 black women between the ages of 25-55 for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Voices of Black Women initiative incorporates factors beyond genetics in women&#8217;s health with a goal of better understanding health for all. The study is focused on black women, but the information derived will be used across all health care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Privacy is a pillar of the study. Each woman who participates is identified with a number to avoid any personal data being released. The hope is to create a study that produces uncompromised data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The women involved believe it is an important step in impacting health care for black women, who have been higher rates of disease in many disease categories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/voices.cancer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Voices of Black Women Study<\/a> | <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmericanCancerSociety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook <\/a>| <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/americancancersociety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a><br class=\" \"\/>Email: thevoices@cancer.org<br class=\" \"\/>Phone: (800) 494 4113<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Cancer Society<\/a> | <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmericanCancerSociety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook <\/a>| <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/americancancersociety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a><br class=\" \"\/>1818 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByTimothy Walton Tuesday, February 24, 2026 3:04PM PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; The American Cancer Society hopes to improve health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57566,57564,12910,3831,69,71,70,56087,57565],"class_list":["post-122442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-57566","tag-american-cancer-society","tag-black-history","tag-health-care","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-visions","tag-voices-of-black-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}