How Cancer Crossed the Color Line

<p>In the course of the 20th century cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction on medical and epidemiological evidence and on patients' accounts Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation in cancer awareness revealing how not only awareness but cancer prevention treatment and survival have all been refracted through the lens of race.</p>