Originally, my poster board was only addressing my prostate cancer advocacy and disparity work that I do with the Men's Health Committee/UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Alameda County Office of Urban Male Health. And when the observer sees the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data, the alarming national disparity patterns will become more apparent. To combat that trend, our prostate support group has developed a socialization pattern we call “Men Talk” to help men make more informed decisions. We'll see if our local disparity decreases. If it does, then our model will become a candidate for national adoption. And since I'm engaged in other advocacy work, I decided to share those activities:

1. The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group-American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ECOG-ACRIN), where I'm involved with the Head and Neck Cancer Committee and the Cancer Research Advocates Committee

2. Kaiser Permanente Community Action Board (CAB), where I'm chair of the Northern California CAB Tissue Bank and member of Kaiser's National CAB Tissue Bank

3. Sutter Health's Ethnic Health Cancer Committee, where we focus on colon, breast, and prostate cancers

I'll provide more detail on all four (4) advocacy activities on the poster board and hopefully by sharing my other advocacy voices, the viewer gains a more complete picture of my advocacy interest and needs.

Citation Format: Gerald Green. [Advocate Abstract:] An anthropological approach to African American prostate cancer disparity [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Tenth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2017 Sep 25-28; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2018;27(7 Suppl):Abstract nr B88.