What’s inside:

  • Survivors Day: Petitioning for Health Insurance Reform
    • Cancer survivors across the US celebrated National Cancer Survivors Day while urging the need for health insurance for all Americans.
  • Cancer: A Tough Enemy – No Equal Opportunity for the Disadvantaged
    • Cancer strikes poor people more often, leaving them with lower survival rates; thoughts from Charles A. LeMaistre, M.D.
  • Needed: Minority Role Models – Q&A with Lovell Jones
    • Recent LaSalle D. Leffall Award recipient spoke with Natalie Davis Spingarn on cancer disparities.
  • Letter from the Chair, by Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D.
  • Poverty, Race and Lifestyle: “The Prism of Culture”
    • New government study shows links between poverty and race with cancer incidence.
  • Advocacy Update, by Albert L. Siu, M.D., MSPH
    • Cancer burdens are higher amongst black Americans due to issues with prevention, early detection, and treatment.
  • What’s News
  • Networker Reader
  • People Watching
    • Profiles on Anna Wu Work, Sylvia Arlene Cooper, Alejita M. Ortiz, and Andrea DiLorenzo.
  • Letters to the Editor