JUNE 2008

JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
VOL. 100, NO. 6, JUNE 2008

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS

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Knowledge and Attitudes of Primary Care Physicians Regarding Prostate Cancer Screening
John Pendleton, MS; Robert Whit Curry, MD; Ali Kaserian, MD; Myron Chang, PhD; Satoshi Anai, MD; Kogenta Nakamura, MD; Phillip Abdoush, MD; and Charles J. Rosser, MD

674
Using Focus Groups to Adapt Ethnically Appropriate, Information-Seeking and Recruitment Messages for a Prostate Cancer Screening Program for Men at High Risk
Charlene J. Bryan, PhD, MPH; Lindsay Wetmore-Arkader, MA; Tammy Calvano, MA;Janet A. Deatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN; Veda N. Giri, MD; and Deborah Watkins Bruner, RN, PhD, FAAN

683
A Contemporary Review on the Inequities in the Management of Lung Cancer among the African-American Population
Anthony W. Kim, MD; Michael J. Liptay, MD; and Robert S.D. Higgins, MD

690
Head and Neck Cancer—A Clinicopathological Study in a Tertiary Care Center
Bukola F. Adeyemi, BDS (Ib), FWACS, MSc (Ib); Lola V. Adekunle, BSc (Ife), MPH (Isr), PhD (Ib); Bamidele M.
Kolude, BDS (Ib), FWACS, MSc (Ib); Effiong E.U. Akang, MBBS (Ib), FWACP, FMCPath; and Jonathan O. Lawoyin, DDS (Howard), MSc (Glasgow)

698
Higher Incidence of Aggressive Breast Cancers in African-American Women: A Review
Gloria J. Morris, MD, PhD and Edith P. Mitchell, MD, FACP

705
The Underrepresentation of African Americans in Online Cancer Support Groups
Joshua Fogel, PhD; Kurt M. Ribisl, PhD; Phyllis D. Morgan, PhD, APRN, BC; Keith Humphreys, PhD; and Elizabeth J. Lyons, MPH

716
Radioactive Iodine in the Treatment of Type-2 Amiodarone-Induced Thyrotoxicosis
Alptekin Gursoy, MD; Neslihan Bascil Tutuncu, MD; Arzu Gencoglu, MD; Cuneyd Anil, MD; Asli Nar Demirer, MD; and Nilgun Guvener Demirag, MD

724
Personal Factors Affecting African-American Men’s Prostate Cancer Screening Behavior
Folakemi T. Odedina, PhD; Ellen S. Campbell, PhD; Margareth LaRose-Pierre, PharmD; John Scrivens, PhD; and Angela Hill, PharmD

748
Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening among African Americans, Linking Risk Perception to Interventions Targeting Patients, Communities and Clinicians
Stephanie H. Ward, MD, MPH; Karen Lin, MD, MPH; Brian Meyer, MD, MPH; Sarah B. Bass, PhD, MPH; Lalitha Parameswaran, MBBS, MPH; Thomas F. Gordon, PhD; and Sheryl Burt Ruzek, PhD, MPH

CASE REPORTS

713
Nasal Rhinosporidiosis
Godwins O. Echejoh, FMCPath; Agabus N. Manasseh, FMCPath; Matthew N. Tanko, FMCPath; Stella E. Ogala-Echejoh, MBBS; Olugbenga A. Silas, FMCPath; Tonga L. Nimkur, FWCAS; and Barnabas M. Mandong, FMCPath

721
Intestinal Ischemia in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Michael G. Lee, MD; Karlene Hagley, MD; and Karel Decuaelar, MD

734
Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension as an Uncommon Presentation of Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Mateo Porres-Aguilar, MD; Miguel Angel Pena-Ruiz, MD; Jose D. Burgos, MD; Mateo Porres-Munoz, MD; and Harold W. Hughes, MD, FCCP

737
Metastatic Gastric Stump Cancer Occurring Six Years after a Partial Gastrectomy for Gastric Ulcer
Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, MD, MPH and Duane T. Smoot, MD

740
Trismus and Trigeminal Neuralgia in One Patient with Colon Cancer
Huan-Lin Chen, MD; Wen-Hsiung Chang, MD; Shou-Chuan Shih, MD; Kwok-Kuen Pang, MD; and Ming-Jong Bair, MD

743
Familial Melanonychia Striata
Alexander K.C. Leung, MBBS, FRCPC, FRCP(UK & Irel), FRCPCH and D. Ross McLeod, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG