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Cancer is a renegade system of growth that originates within a patientís biosystem, more ommonly known as the human body. There are many different types of cancers, but all share one allmark characteristic: unchecked growth that progresses toward limitless expansion.
It is difficult to imagine anyone who has not heard of this illness. Most people have been affected because either they or their loved ones or friends are cancer survivors. 

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New Study of African-American and Hispanic Colorectal Cancer Patients Illustrates Importance of Early Screening Among Higher Risk Patients
ORLANDO (November 1, 2004) — In a study African-American and Hispanic patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science between 1996 and 2004 over one-quarter were diagnosed before age 50.  More...

African Americans continue to have a disproportionately high burden of disease, disability, and death.  In recent history, African Americans have been emancipated, enfranchised, and empowered politically; have engaged in a massive migration from the rural areas of the South to the urban North; have realized dramatic economic gains; and have moved from caste segregation to social desegregation (Farley and Allen, 1987).  These events have had a significant influence on the economic, social, political, and health status of the African American population.  More...

Each year approximately 45,000 African Americans die from a preventable smoking-related disease; which represents over 10 percent of the estimated yearly smoking related deaths in the United States. Smoking is responsible for 87 percent of lung cancers. African American men are at least 50 percent more likely to develop lung cancer than white men.  More...

The National Dental Association paves the way to implement the National African American Tobacco Education
Network’s Tobacco Cessation Curriculum for Clinician. 
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