LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 7, 2022) — The College of Kentucky Markey Most cancers Heart obtained a grant via the Alliance for Fairness in Most cancers Care (the Alliance), an initiative funded by the Merck Basis (the Basis). The Alliance is designed to make most cancers care extra equitable within the U.S. by serving to sufferers who reside in underserved communities obtain well timed entry to high-quality, culturally responsive care.
Almost 40% of Individuals can be identified with most cancers of their lifetime. Members of racial and ethnic minority teams, these dwelling in rural areas, low-income people and the uninsured are disproportionately affected by most cancers, but typically have restricted entry to most cancers screenings, care and therapy.
Kentucky persistently bears one of many highest most cancers burdens within the nation — rating first general in new most cancers circumstances and deaths — with greater than 30,000 new circumstances and over 10,100 deaths annually. As well as, the Commonwealth has important cancer-related disparities amongst rural, Appalachian, Black and Hispanic populations.
Alliance program grantees will work to enhance the coordination of affected person care from analysis via survivorship; strengthen affected person engagement in therapy choices and general patient-provider communication; construct group partnerships that tackle obstacles to care associated to social determinants of well being; and supply important psychosocial help providers.
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By means of the Alliance, the UK Markey Most cancers Heart will improve coordination of care utilizing digital instruments to facilitate psychosocial screening, affected person navigation, distant affected person monitoring, and affected person and supplier schooling in collaboration with affected person advocates and group companions.
“These efforts will tackle a number of the social determinants of well being that end in important disparities in most cancers outcomes in Kentucky,” stated the venture’s principal investigator Timothy Mullett, M.D., a professor of cardiothoracic surgical procedure and the medical director of the UK Markey Most cancers Heart Affiliate and Analysis Networks.
“One of many largest challenges confronted by sufferers in rural communities is distance to high quality most cancers care,” Mullett stated. “Expertise connecting rural sufferers to the assets and experience they want is only one technique that may improve fairness and entry to most cancers care in Kentucky and past.”
The Markey venture is co-directed by Ming-Yuan Chih, Ph.D., affiliate professor within the Faculty of Well being Sciences, and Pamela Hull, Ph.D., an affiliate professor within the Faculty of Drugs and Markey Most cancers Heart’s affiliate director of Inhabitants Science and Group Impression.
“The severity of the necessity to take motion on advancing fairness in most cancers care can’t be overstated and won’t be ignored,” stated Carmen Villar, CEO of the Merck Basis. “We should transfer with urgency and work collectively to supply all folks dwelling with most cancers entry to high-quality care and therapy. The creation of the Alliance is a vital step towards guaranteeing social determinants of well being not issue into a person’s skill to obtain important well being care.”
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Along with the UK Markey Most cancers Heart, Alliance program grantees embody Boston Medical Heart; Case Complete Most cancers Heart, Case Western Reserve College; Conquer Most cancers®, the ASCO Basis; Mary Hen Perkins Most cancers Heart; Memorial Sloan Kettering Most cancers Heart; and RWJBarnabas Well being.
The Merck Basis can also be supporting a nationwide program workplace at Virginia Commonwealth College (VCU) Massey Most cancers Heart, in partnership with the VCU Heart on Well being Disparities, which can help Alliance program grantees in constructing partnerships with community-based organizations and supply technical help to help their applications. The Nationwide Program Workplace may also consider the effectiveness of Alliance applications and determine and promote greatest practices that may improve the supply of most cancers care within the U.S.
Alliance program grantees will convene commonly with the Nationwide Program Workplace to debate learnings, share insights and discover tangible actions to help the supply of equitable most cancers care inside their native communities and past.
Concerning the Merck Basis
The Merck Basis is a U.S.-based, non-public charitable basis. Established in 1957 by Merck, a number one international biopharmaceutical firm, the Basis is funded completely by the corporate and is Merck’s chief supply of funding help to certified nonprofit charitable organizations. Since its inception, the Merck Basis has contributed practically $1 billion to help essential initiatives that tackle crucial international well being and societal wants which can be in step with Merck’s goal: to avoid wasting and enhance lives all over the world. For extra data, go to www.merck.com/company-overview/esg/philanthropy/.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rivalry week has finally arrived. The Louisville and Kentucky football program are set to do battle once again, facing off in Lexington for the annual Battle for the Governor’s Cup.
Here are the depth charts for both the Cardinals and Wildcats:
Changes from Louisville’s Depth Chart vs. Pitt:
Quarterback
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9 Tyler Shough (6-5, 230, Gr.) 10 Pierce Clarkson (6-1, 190, R-Fr.) OR 15 Harrison Bailey (6-5, 230, R-Sr.) OR 12 Brady Allen (6-6, 220, R-So)
Running Back
25 Isaac Brown (5-9, 190, Fr.) 21 Donald Chaney Jr. (5-10, 210, R-Jr.) 26 Duke Watson (6-0, 180, Fr.) 22 Keyjuan Brown (5-10, 210, R-Fr.)
Wide Receiver
0 Chris Bell (6-2, 220, Jr.) 81 Cataurus Hicks (5-10, 180, R-Fr.)
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (3-2) at Kentucky Wildcats (5-0)
Lexington, Kentucky; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wildcats -22.5; over/under is 164
BOTTOM LINE: No. 8 Kentucky takes on Western Kentucky after Koby Brea scored 22 points in Kentucky’s 108-59 win over the Jackson State Tigers.
The Wildcats have gone 4-0 at home. Kentucky is 10th in college basketball averaging 12.6 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 42.3% from downtown. Brea leads the team averaging 4.0 makes while shooting 74.1% from 3-point range.
The Hilltoppers are 0-1 in road games. Western Kentucky ranks third in the CUSA shooting 37.4% from 3-point range.
Kentucky scores 97.0 points, 24.2 more per game than the 72.8 Western Kentucky allows. Western Kentucky averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 more made shots on average than the 6.0 per game Kentucky gives up.
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TOP PERFORMERS: Brea is shooting 74.1% from beyond the arc with 4.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Wildcats, while averaging 16 points.
Julius Thedford averages 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Hilltoppers, scoring 11.4 points while shooting 54.5% from beyond the arc.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
Mark Stoops owns a five-game winning streak in the Governor’s Cup series. The Wildcats have won three games in a row at L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium and have not lost to Louisville at Kroger Field since 2017 when Bobby Petrino was holding the call sheet and and Lamar Jackson was playing quarterback. The Wildcats have also covered a lot of spreads in this series.
Stoops is 7-2-1 against-the-spread (ATS) in this series with with covers as a double-digit dog in 2014 and 2016. Kentucky has beaten Louisville outright as a dog three times since 2016 and has covered five straight in this series. Those are not the only trends going in Kentucky’s direction heading into this Week 14 contest.
Louisville is 0-4-1 ATS as a road favorite under Jeff Brohm with outright losses to Pittsburgh and Stanford. Kentucky is 5-0-1 ATS as a dog in its last six outing including four games this season. Kentucky covered numbers as a double-digit dog against Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Texas this season.
The visitor is 11-3-1 ATS (5-10 outright) in the last 14 meetings of this series with 10 outright wins but Kentucky has won the last two meetings at Kroger Field covering each times as a three-point favorite. In 2019, Kentucky ran away for a 45-13 victory and cruised to a 26-13 victory in 2022.
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Kentucky has consistently overachieved pregame expectations in this series. The Wildcats are currently a 3.5-point dog with a total of 48.5. That’s a projected final score of 26-22.5. Will UK exceed expectations again against Louisville? A win would equal four outright upsets for the Big Blue in the last eight meetings of the series.
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