Mission: Interception — Creating Better Ways to Stop Cancer in Its Tracks

In 2018, Meira Epplein, PhD, associate professor in population health sciences and medicine, applied an intervention to stop cancer in a setting that most might not expect: a church.

Epplein is an expert in Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), a stomach bacterium that causes pain, nausea, or ulcers in some people, and no symptoms in others. The bug is also linked to increased risk of stomach cancer. Stomach cancer is rare, but some groups, including African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, and those with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, are more likely to develop it.  Read more here

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