Main description:

This volume reviews disparities in cancer genetics, etiology, treatment and survivorship that are associated with differences in energy balance and how those differences and disparities may be affected by geography, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, biology, behavior and others. State-of-the-art strategies are outlined to alter these problems at the individual, community and policy levels. The book provides a comprehensive assessment of the multiple contributions of disparities in energy balance and how they affect cancer. this volume should constitute a valuable resource to disparity focused investigators at all levels and serves an important guide to professionals that deal with these issues, especially those who determine and implement policy.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Obesity and Cancer in Appalachia - Rory C. Weier, M.P.H., Jesse J. Plascak, Ph.D.

James L. Fisher, Ph.D., Electra D. Paskett, Ph.D.

Chapter 2. Weller - DISPARITIES IN CANCER OUTCOMES: A UK PERSPECTIVE - Donald Nicolson, PhD, Una Macleod PhD FRCGP FHEA, David Weller, Ph.D.

Chapter 3. Behavioral Differences Leading to Disparities in Energy Balance and Cancer - Donna Spruijt-Metz, MFA, Ph.D., Lauren Cook, CK Freddy Wen, MPH , Robert Garcia, MPH, ATC, Gillian A. O'Reilly, Ya-Wen Hsu, Jennifer B. Unger, Ph.D., Selena T. Nguyen-Rodriguez, PhD

Chapter 4. Impact of obesity, race, and ethnicity on cancer survivorship - Kathryn H. Schmitz PhD, MPH, FACSM, Tanya Agurs-Collins PhD, RD, Marian L. Neuhouser PhD, RD , Lisa Pollack MPT, MPH, Ph.D. Student, and Sarah Gehlert PhD

Chapter 5. The biology of aging: Role in cancer, metabolic dysfunction and health disparities - Nathan K. LeBrasseur, PhD, Derek M. Huffman, PhD, Gerald V. Denis, PhD

Chapter 6. Energy Balance and Multiple Myeloma in African Americans - Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH, Kari Bohlke, ScD, Su-Hsin Chang, PhD, Kenneth Carson, MD

Chapter 7. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Obesity and Inflammatory Genes in African Americans with Colorectal Cancer - Melissa Kang, MD, Temitope O. Keku, PhD

Chapter 8. Ethnic Differences in Insulin Resistance as a mediator of Cancer Disparities - Rebecca E Hasson PhD, Michael I. Goran PhD.

Chapter 9. Role of ethnic differences in mediators of energy balance - Sarah S. Cohen, Ph.D, Loren Lipworth ScD

Chapter 10. Community-Based Strategies to Alter Energy Balance in Underserved Breast Cancer Survivors - Melinda Stolley, Ph.D.

Chapter 11. The role of policy in reducing inflammation - Deborah J. Bowen PhD , Stacey Zawacki DrPH

Chapter 12. Cancer Prevention through Policy Interventions that Alter Childhood Disparities in Energy Balance - Debra Haire-Joshu, Ph.D.