Third week of April is Minority Cancer Awareness Week
“Let’s Achieve Health Equity”
Posted February 1, 2023
“Racial and ethnic minorities who are traditionally underrepresented in clinical trials have also had worse clinical outcomes over time. Black patients, for example, have a clinical trial enrollment rate of 4%-6% despite representing 15% of the population and have the highest overall cancer death rate. It has been established that numerous barriers to clinical trial participation exist at...
Posted December 1, 2022
Health Equity Train the Trainer Program, an award-winning training program that is funded by the Florida Blue Foundation, in partnership with Orlando Health, Moffitt Cancer Center, and United Way Broward is a six-week long program with a 10-hour time commitment. There are two live zoom sessions (5 hours total) and 6 modules (5 hours total)...
Posted November 10, 2022
Professionals from academia, industry, and the community are coming together with the shared mission of closing health equity gaps and developing and sustaining diversity and inclusion efforts in the health system of Florida. Together they will promote the exchange of novel ideas, discuss the latest findings in the field, and stimulate the development of new research, advocacy, and policy on cancer disparities.
Posted October 18, 2022
J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2022;20(10):1092-1098.e2. Schatz AA, Brooks-Coley K, Harrington E, Murray MS, Carlson RW. Cancer prevention and treatment systems are significantly impacted by interpersonal, organizational, and structural and systemic racism. A wide body of research has found that racial disparities in access to guideline-adherent cancer care are pervasive throughout the United States and...
Posted October 12, 2022
Speaker: Scout NFN, National LGBT Cancer Network
Posted September 14, 2022
There is disparity in hematologic malignancies in incidence, outcome, survivorship, and clinical trial access. However, there is progress in health equity in hematologic malignancies. Attached are few representative publications. The problem of disparity in hematologic malignancies. “Are Pivotal Clinical Trials for Drugs Approved for Leukemias and Multiple Myeloma Representative of the Population at Risk?” published in JCO...
Posted August 30, 2022
Per the ASCO Daily Post, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a draft guidance “Diversity Plans to Improve Enrollment of Participants from Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Populations in Clinical Trials Guidance for Industry (fda.gov)” at https://www.regulations.gov. for sponsors developing medical products to include a diversity plan, focusing on racial and ethnic diversity, in...
Posted August 9, 2022
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) released two new resources to help research sites increase racial and ethnic equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in cancer clinical trials with publication of an article in The Journal of Clinical Oncology that detailed six overarching recommendations for improving EDI in cancer...
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3rd week of April – Minority Cancer Awareness
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Cancer Treatment Disparities | AACR Cancer Disparities Progess Report 2020
American Cancer Society’s report on the status of cancer disparities in the United States, 2021.
Cancer statistics for African American/Black People 2022
Cancer statistics for the US Hispanic/Latino population, 2021
AACR REPORT ON THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON CANCER RESEARCH AND PATIENT CARE
Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts
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