




































 
 
 
 
 

 

www.eopenaccess.com/index.php/chd e1 Cancer Health Disparities 

EDITORIAL 

Introducing Cancer Health Disparities Journal 
 

Keshav K. Singh, Ph.D  

Editor-in-Chief 

 

In today’s world, understanding, preventing and 

curing cancer remains the top most challenge. 

Over the past several decades, there has been a 

substantial advancement in screening, diagnosis, 

prevention, and treatment of cancer. 

Nevertheless, disparities in the incidence, 

penetrance, social factors, genetic background, 

and environmental influence all affect the time of 

diagnosis, the course of prognosis and successful 

treatment of cancer. A recent study reports the 

higher incidence of prostate cancer in American 

populations, which is relatively much lesser in 

Asian populations. Among Americans, its 

incidence is higher in African-Americans in 

comparison to Caucasians. Similarly, cancer 

chemotherapy success varies widely across 

different ethnic populations. These observations 

make cancer health disparities research an 

important field of investigation. Disparities 

research would give way to personalized 

medicine for treatment of cancer in different 

populations.  

 

The goal of the Cancer Health Disparities is to 

cover all aspects of disparities including social, 

cultural, environmental, and genetic 

determinants contributing to differences in 

cancer incidence, prevalence, death, survivorship, 

and burden of cancer that exist among different 

population around the world. The overall aim is 

to publish high quality, high impact, and 

innovative research articles in all areas related to 

cancer health disparities.  

Cancer Health Disparities will publish case report, 

multidisciplinary editorial, commentary, 

hypothesis, short and full-length reviews, full-

length original, clinical or basic science research 

articles and short articles of immediate scientific 

or clinical significance. These include disparities 

at the population, epidemiological, metabolic, 

molecular, genetic, physiological, clinical, 

diagnostic and therapeutic levels. 

 

Cancer Health Disparities would provide a 

common dedicated platform to clinicians, 

epidemiologists, population and prevention 

scientists, molecular biologists, physician 

scientists and others for publishing 

multidisciplinary research on cancer disparities 

that would accelerate research in this important 

field. This would pave the way to efficient and 

targeted personalized cancer care for diverse 

ethnic populations.  

 

The editorial team is excited about the launch of 

this journal and looking forward to your 

participation.  

 

Keywords: Cancer Health Disparities, ISSN:  2573-

9530 

Citation: Singh KK. (2017). Introducing Cancer 

Health Disparities Journal. Cancer Health 

Disparities;1:e1. 

Doi:10.9777/chd.2017.10001


