IMPORTANT CANCER FACTS FOR MINORITIES AND THE POOR
The main obstacles racial and ethnic minorities face to receiving health care services relating to cancer prevention, early detection, and high-quality treatment include: poverty and low income; inadequate health insurance; geographic, cultural, and language barriers; high cost of most modern effective cancer treatments; and racial bias, discrimination and stereotyping (read more facts)
NEWS: Breast Cancer Symposium Excludes US Underserved Communities
Washington
The program organizers are to be commended for organizing a general session on ‘Breast Cancer Therapy in Underserved Communities Around the World’..... The absence from this session however, of a presentation on ‘Breast Cancer Therapy in Underserved Communities in the