
Cancer Disparities
Description
Key Features
- Describes the complex interplay of contributors to cancer disparities, ranging from the micro to macro level, and based on the social, environmental, and biological determinants of health
- Provides a range of chapters reflecting the unique expertise of the authors in these diverse topic areas
Readership
Scientists, clinicians, and students at all levels
Table of Contents
- Preface
- About the Editors
- Chapter One: The Role of Advanced Glycation End-Products in Cancer Disparity
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Advanced Glycation End-Products
- 3 AGE Metabolites, Lifestyle, and Health Disparity
- 4 Mechanisms of AGE Pathogenicity
- 5 AGEs, Cancer, and Cancer Disparity
- 6 Targeting AGE Biology
- 7 Concluding Remarks
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Two: Disparities in Obesity, Physical Activity Rates, and Breast Cancer Survival
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Literature Review and Synthesis
- 3 Conclusions and Future Directions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Three: MicroRNAs and Their Impact on Breast Cancer, the Tumor Microenvironment, and Disparities
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 microRNAs in Breast Cancer Disparities
- 3 microRNAs in Tumor Microenvironment
- 4 Summary and Future Perspectives
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter Four: Applying a Conceptual Framework to Maximize the Participation of Diverse Populations in Cancer Clinical Trials
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Five: Social Networks Across Common Cancer Types: The Evidence, Gaps, and Areas of Potential Impact
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 3 Cancer, Social Ties, and Social Networks
- 4 Social Networks in the Digital Age: The Link to Cancer
- 5 Gender, Cancer, and Social Networks
- 6 Social Networks and Health Behaviors
- 7 Discussion
- 8 Potential for Public Health Impact
- 9 Conclusions
- Chapter Six: Disparities in Cervical Cancer Incidence and Mortality: Can Epigenetics Contribute to Eliminating Disparities?
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Disparities in Cervical Cancer Incidence and Mortality
- 3 Disparities in CIN Incidence
- 4 Human Papillomavirus
- 5 Screening
- 6 Cofactors of HPV Infection and CIN Progression
- 7 HPV Genetics and Epigenetics, and Ethnic Disparities
- 8 Host Epigenetics
- 9 Concluding Remarks
- Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 174
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: January 4, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128098783
- eBook ISBN: 9780128098790
About the Serial Volume Editors
Marvella Ford

Affiliations and Expertise
Dennis Watson

Dr. Watson has an extensive track record in educating and providing mentorship to over 25 predoctoral students, 25 postdoctoral trainees, and 12 junior faculty. He has also been a member of the thesis committees for 56 other graduate students and is the leader of the MUSC College of Graduate Studies’ Cancer Biology curriculum for predoctoral students. After more than a decade as research program leader for the MUSC-HCC Cancer Genes and Molecular Regulation Program, he was appointed the inaugural Associate Director for Education and Training in 2013. In this role, he chairs the career development committee of the MUSC-HCC K12 program, and works with MUSC-HCC leadership to develop education and training initiatives.