# Racism, Residential Racial Segregation, and Breast Cancer Survival Disparities among Black, Hispanic and non-Hispanic White Women

> **NIH NIH R01** · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · 2020 · $62,161

## Abstract

Project Summary
This proposal seeks funding for a diversity supplement to provide Ms. Carolina Cuevas, BS with a rigorous and
focused mentored research training experience that will further enhance her professional and academic
experience and skills and permit her to explore her research interests, while obtaining a master’s degree in
public or global health. Ultimately, this supplement will move Ms. Cuevas toward her goal of obtaining a PhD in
the public health sciences, with a concentration in oncology and human nutrition. Ms. Cuevas will participate in
a range of research training and career development activities and benefit from focused mentorship, including
her engagement with the parent study (R01CA214805) Racism, Residential Racial Segregation, and Breast
Cancer Survival Disparities among Black, Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Women. Dr. Beyer, the PI, will
serve as her primary mentor and oversee her research training experience at the Medical College of
Wisconsin. The parent study focuses on the significant, persistent, and geographically variable racial and
ethnic disparities in breast cancer survival in the United States. Racism and racial residential segregation are
widely considered to contribute to health disparities and may partially explain geographical variation in the size
of breast cancer survival disparities. The parent study has three aims: (1) Construct new and existing metrics
of racism and segregation at the local level for the largest US metropolitan areas, and determine (a) how
measures co-vary, (b) whether segregation measures predict stressors, social resources and opportunities at
the local level, and (c) whether relationships differ by metropolitan area, (2) Determine whether measures of
segregation are related to breast cancer survival disparities among Black, Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White
women, and whether relationships are mediated by local stressors, social resources, or opportunities, and (3)
Explore the ways in which Black and Hispanic breast cancer survivors in a highly segregated metropolitan area
navigate cancer survivorship in the context of segregation. Ms. Cuevas will participate in and expand the
research for Aim 3. She will (1) undertake a series of interviews with women breast cancer survivors who
identify as Hispanic/Latina and with Black/African American and/or indigenous ancestry and (2) undertake a
focused analysis of those interviews with an emphasis on examining issues of colorism, immigration, and
language barriers that may contribute to knowledge regarding relationships among discrimination, racial
segregation, and breast cancer survival disparities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10063199
- **Project number:** 3R01CA214805-04S1
- **Recipient organization:** MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN
- **Principal Investigator:** Kirsten M Beyer
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $62,161
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2017-05-08 → 2022-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10063199

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10063199, Racism, Residential Racial Segregation, and Breast Cancer Survival Disparities among Black, Hispanic and non-Hispanic White Women (3R01CA214805-04S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10063199. Licensed CC0.

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