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Cancer Center - University of Texas; numerous Faculty and staff

from renowned Fox Chase Cancer Center; and Wilmington Mayor James

Baker among others. (See complete list of presenters below.)

WHERE: Doubletree Hotel Downtown - Wilmington, DE (Legal District)

WHY: Because:

-- African American women have a 36% higher death rate from breast

cancer than their white counterparts.

-- African American men have the highest mortality rate for

prostate cancer of any racial or ethnic group in the US.

-- The death rate from all cancers combined was 35% higher in

African American men and 18% higher in African American women.

-- African American women are twice as likely to die from cervical

cancer as white women.

-- African American men have a 30% higher death rate from lung

cancer than white men.

-- Source: American Cancer Society

The complete list of faculty and presenters includes:

-- Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Former U.S. Surgeon General - Clinton

Administration

-- Harold P. Freeman MD - Polo Ralph Lauren Cancer Center, New York

-- Carol L. Brown MD - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

-- Winston Wilkins, Director - US DHHS Office for Civil Rights

-- Mayor James M. Baker - Wilmington, Delaware

-- Pastor Luke J. Robinson - Quinn Chapel AME Church, Frederick, MD

-- David Y.T. Chen MD - Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia

-- Natalie E. Joseph MD - Fox Chase Cancer Center

-- Veda N. Giri MD - Fox Chase Cancer Center

-- William J. Hicks MD - The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer

Center, Columbus

-- Lovell A. Jones PhD - The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer

Center, Houston

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