100 Questions and Answers about Breast Cancer

Zora Brown is Special Assistant to the President's Office for Health and Minority Initiatives at Integris Health, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ms. Brown is founder and chairperson of Cancer Awareness Program Services (CAPS) and the Breast Cancer Resource Committee (BCRC) and founder of Rise, Sister, Rise, a breast cancer support group model for African American women. In 1996, she organized Men in Action Against Breast Cancer, a support arm of the Breast Cancer Resource Committee. In 2002 Ms. Brown, along with her nieces, founded SASSi™ (Sisters Accessing Skills for Survival and Intervention). Ms. Brown is an outspoken advocate for minority and women's health issues; presenting at both national and international forums. She appears regularly on the networks and CNN and other media as an expert on women's health.

Dr. Leffall, the Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine, has devoted his professional life to the study of cancer, especially as it relates to African Americans. A past president of the American Cancer Society, he has been awarded an Honorary Lifetime membership to the American College of Gastroenterology and a humanitarian Award from the Washington, D.C. branch of the NAACP.

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