political. cancer doesn t care if you re republican or a democrat. everyone can come together to fight this and he compared it to the moonshot saying you have to harness the resources of u.s. scientists and doctors and technology to be able to do this. elizabeth, in general since 1991, cancer deaths are down 31% according to the american cancer society. a lot of that is because of prostate cancer deaths down 50%, breast cancer deaths down 40% but a lot of that, i have to say, is because of screening, early screening and preventive measure, not necessarily curing the cancers itself. how feasible, how realistic is it to cut cancer deaths in half in 5 years? i reached out to a variety of experts asking that question this afternoon. i thought they d say, i don t know about that. they actually were quite positive and pointed to the statistic that you just pointed to, in 28 years they went down 32%. whatever reasons there were, we can do more of the same and they pointed to sev
so people eat those costs. they assume those costs that help the patient, yes, but make it so it s more difficult for them to provide the quality care necessary. thank you. another sbrsting topic that you should be fairly familiar with. a high percentage of americans. breast kacancer deaths are approximately one and a halftimes higher in african-american women. prostate cancer deaths are two and a halftimes higher in african-american it men. new diagnosis of twice as high. i would love to hear your perspective on addressing the health disparities in communities of color specifically. this is really an important area. i appreciate you bringing it up. what we do so often in this and other areas is to say, okay, we re going to set up this facility here or this agency here and we have taken care of the problem.
captions by vitac www.vitac.com chuck brown, chuck brown. godfather, go, go! he recently died. passed last week. the godfather of go-go missed my radar. hes into go-go. we ll get him some by the end of the day. that s roland martin s play list because he s doing a tutorial on go-go. roller skates and short dresses? the music never stops and keeps going. you really need to get some go-go on your ipod. welcome, everybody. welcome to our panel this morning. anyone having allergies? no. no issues. anybody? yes, thank you. one crew member. one guy sniveling over there. he s going to be replacing you in one moment, roland martin as you can tell is back. is he the host of washington watch with roland martin. notice the music keeps going, going, going. that s right. nice to have you back and will cain is a columnist for theblaze.com. no go-go at all. he s getting the go-go. it s creeping up on him. what is in my coffee? look, noth
we re glad you are right here. let s start at the top of the hour with republican presidential candidate mitt romney. he s facing criticism and questions for being a mormon. this time it s coming from the pastor of a mega church in dallas. his name is reverend robert jeffress. you may recognize that name and face. jeffress introduced governor rick perry at the conservative values voter summit in washington, d.c. he was critical of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and told our jim acosta and others that morm ononism is cult. you created a stir because in talking to reporters, you said in pretty strong plain language what you think of mormonism. you describe it as a cult. and you say that if a republican votes for mitt romney, they re giving credibility to a cult. to you stand fwby that comment? absolutely. that is the historic position of evangelical christianity. we have officially labelled mormonism as a couple. i think those born again followers of christ