Black patients are significantly more likely not to receive any cancer treatment at all, according to a new study by Drs. Jalpa Doshi and Carmen Guerra, and former LDI Fellow John K. Lin, Assistant Professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
What is your most important finding about cancer care disparities and why?
Dr. Doshi: The survival gap essentially vanishes when treatment is initiated. That tells us that this isn’t a question of biology, but one of access. This is a solvable problem if we focus on getting existing therapies to the patients who need them.