Thursday, June 10, 2021

#ASCO21 Cancer Disparity Sessions

The theme for this year's ASCO annual meeting was EQUITY: EVERY PATIENT EVERY DAY EVERYWHERE.  I attended a number of sessions including  Equality in Care for All Women: Addressing Disparities in Gynecologic Malignancies and Social Determinants, Not Biology: Time to Reappraise Genetics- Based Theories of Racial/Ethnic Cancer Outcome Disparities and More Than the Patient: Structural Racism and Cancer Disparities.

Here are the tweets I posted during the sessions.

https://twitter.com/womenofteal/status/1400889490294648837?s=20 

Equality in Care for All Women: Addressing Disparities in Gynecologic Malignancies

Opening Session

 

Social Determinants, Not Biology: Time to Reappraise Genetics-Based Theories of Racial/Ethnic Cancer Outcome Disparities 

 

More Than the Patient: Structural Racism and Cancer Disparities

 

There are so many areas where we all can improve the care for "every patient everywhere" and these open  and honest discussions can make these needed changes happen.  

 

Dee

Every Day is a Blessing! 

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