1. Introduction: Cancer and health disparities

   • Otis W. Brawley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 9

2. Population categorization and cancer statistics

   • Otis W. Brawley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 19

3. Head and neck cancer

   • Steve McMahon
   • Amy Y. Chen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 24

4. Racial/ethnic patterns of care for cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, sinuses, and salivary glands

   • Vickie L. Shavers
   • Linda C. Harlan
   • William W. Davis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 38

5. Racial differences in lung cancer

   • Shirish M. Gadgeel
   • Gregory P. Kalemkerian

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 46

6. Racial differences in genetic factors associated with breast cancer

   • Foluso O. Ademuyiwa
   • Olufunmilayo I. Olopade

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 53

7. Socioeconomic factors and breast cancer in black and white Americans

   • Nahida H. Gordon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 65

8. Colorectal carcinoma in black and white race

   • William F. Anderson
   • Asad Umar
   • Otis W. Brawley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 82

9. Prostate cancer in black and white Americans

   • Sreekanth Reddy
   • Marc Shapiro
   • Otis W. Brawley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 86

10. Myeloma and race: A review of the literature

    • Michael Benjamin
    • Sreekanth Reddy
    • Otis W. Brawley

    OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 93

11. Chronic inflammation as inductor of pro-cancer microenvironment: Pathogenesis of dysregulated feedback control

    • P.M. Schwartsburd

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 102

12. Coordinated expression of integrin subunits, matrix metalloproteinases (MMP), angiogenic genes and Ets transcription factors in advanced-stage ovarian carcinoma: A possible activation pathway?

    • Ben Davidson
    • Iris Goldberg
    • Reuven Reich

    OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 115