Latino Health Care with an Emphasis on Cancer Prevention

Dr. Perez-Stable's research is focused on Latino health care with an emphasis on cancer prevention. 

Dr. Pérez-Stable was the Principal Investigator of the Hispanic Smoking Cessation Research Project (Programa Latino Para Dejar de Fumar) which was a community-based intervention to decrease nicotine dependence in San Francisco Latinos funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 1985-1996.  He also was Leader of a project in the Pathways to Cancer Screeningin Four Ethnic Groups NCI funded program project that included a community based intervention targeting Latina women in San Francisco to promote screening procedures for early detection of breast and cervical cancer.  As a result of these programs booklets in Spanish were produced on smoking cessation, cancer screening for women and a general information booklet on cancer prevention and control.  The Guia para Dejar de Fumar has been published four times by the NCI and most recently was revised in 2002 by the NCI.