TOWARD CULTURAL ONCOLOGY: THE EVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION DYNAMICS OF CANCER

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TOWARD CULTURAL
ONCOLOGY: THE
EVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION
DYNAMICS OF CANCER

Rodrick Wallace

The New York State Psychiatric Institute
Deborah Wallace

Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Robert G. Wallace

City University of New York*

January 7, 2003

Abstract

‘Racial’ disparities among cancers, particularly of the breast and
prostate, are something of a mystery. For the US, in the face of slav-
ery and its sequelae, centuries of interbreeding has greatly leavened
genetic differences between ‘Blacks’ and ‘whites’, but marked contrasts
in disease prevalence and progression persist. ‘Adjustment’ for socioe-
conomic status and lifestyle, while statistically accounting for much
of the variance in breast cancer, only begs the question of ultimate
causality. Here we propose a more basic biological explanation that

*Address correspondence to: Rodrick Wallace, PISCS Inc., 549 W. 123 St., Suite 16F,
New York, NY, 10027. Telephone (212) 865-4766, email [email protected]. Affilia-
tions are for identification only. This material has been submitted for publication and is
protected by copyright.

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