Health Equity

Treatment barriers create racial disparities in cancer care. They need to come down

Abstract: In the U.S., Black people have the highest rates of cancer-related deaths and the shortest survival with cancer of any racial and ethnic group.

Publication: STAT

Date Published: June 24, 2020

Author(s): Robert W. Carlson

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