Tag: cancer prevention

  • The Color of Cancer: Time for a Change

    In New York City, where I live, life-expectancy is 3 years shorter for Black people than the average and cancer is the leading cause of premature death – according to the City’s Vital Statistics records in their most recent summary. Too many Black lives are cut short by cancer, documented by me and many others over the years in…

  • How Not to Die of Lung Cancer

    Quitting smoking is only part of the solution. The day we found out my father had lung cancer, a neighbor had come by my childhood home upstate, but no one answered the door. The neighbor went on inside and looked around – none of us locked our doors out there in the country at the…