Arkansas Rural Community Health (ARCH) cohort, formerly known as the Spit for the Cure, is the largest cohort exist in Arkansas established in 2007 and totals 26,375 women participants from all 75 Arkansas counties and has a high rate of early-onset breast cancer cases (45.6%, n=1,054) at baseline recruitment among all breast cancer patients in the study. Dr. Ping-Ching Hsu is the Principal Investigator for the ARCH Cohort, and has devoted her research to identifying the drivers of health disparities in rural and underserved communities in ARCH.
Access the project homepage here: UAMS.info/ARCH
