Diversity in Medicine
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Poorly matched stem cell transplants linked to ancestry
To address disparities, medical institutions also need to improve their assessments of financial hardship.
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Chronic stress, especially race related, may hasten cancer death
High allostatic load was associated with an 80% increased risk of cancer death among all study participants.
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Physicians react: Climate change and other social issues
Around half of physicians rated climate change among their five most important issues, according to results of a Medscape survey.
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Achieving diversity, equity and inclusion: Invite everyone and build a team
Don’t recruit diverse people to your program and then have them come and feel not included.
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Noted oncologist ponders death, life, care inequities
A photojournalist-turned-physician practiced in India and the United Kingdom before rising to prominence in U.S. community oncology.
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Pivotal trials in blood cancers don’t mirror patient populations
“The results from this study should lead to questions about the generalizability of drug safety and efficacy in populations we serve as medical...
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Hydroquinone, found in skin-lightening agents worldwide, linked with increased skin cancer risk
“The magnitude of the risk was surprising,” one of the study authors said.
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Where women’s voices still get heard less
Only about one-third of board review lectures are presented by women oncologists, and early-career disparities also persist.
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Doc releases song after racist massacre in Buffalo
Cardiologist-musician Cleveland Francis wrote and recorded a song to honor the victims as “a plea to the other side to recognize us as people.”
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Breast cancer less common in Black women, so why do more die?
This mortality gap likely reflects the fact that Black women face substantial barriers to obtaining timely, high-quality medical care, compared...
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Neighborhood analysis links breast cancer outcomes to socioeconomic status
“This study should make clinicians cognizant of the potential for biases in management of metastatic breast cancer in terms of socioeconomic...