Unequal Burden of Cancer

M. Alfred Haynes and Brian D. Smedley, Editors; Committee on Cancer Research Among Minorities and the Medically Underserved, Institute of Medicine

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 The Struggle Against Cancer; 4 2 The Burden of Cancer Among Ethnic Minority and the Medically Underserved Populations; 5 3 Overview of Programs of Research on Ethnic Minority and Medically Underserved Populations at the National Institutes of Health; 6 4 Evaluation of Priority Setting and Programs of Research on Ethnic Minority and Medically Underserved Populations at the National Institutes of Health; 7 5 Advancing State-of-the-Art Treatment and Prevention; 8 6 Cancer Survivorship; 9 7 Monitoring and Reporting; 10 References; 11 Appendix A: Methodology; 12 Appendix B: A New Agenda for Cancer Control Research: Report of the Cancer Control Review Group; 13 Appendix C: National Cancer Institute Health Promotion Branch Publications and Public Service Announcements; 14 Appendix D: Survey of Ethnic Minority Researchers and of Researchers Interested in Cancer Among Ethnic Minority and Medically Underserved Groups; 15 Appendix E: National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute Background Material; 16 Appendix F: Information Provided by the National Center for Health Statistics on the Potential Reductions in Mortality from Cancer, by Ethnic Group; 17 Committee and Staff Biographies; 18 Index