Jun 15 2023 29 mins 2
Drs Jacob Sands and Christopher Lathan, MD, discuss stigma, clinician bias, financial toxicity, and treatment disparities in lung cancer, including helpful practices such as "following the no."
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Resources
Lung Cancer https://www.medscape.com/resource/lungcancer/rc-lungcancer2
Racial and Ethnic Disparities https://www.lung.org/research/state-of-lung-cancer/racial-and-ethnic-disparities
Stage IIIB Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/stage-iiib-non-small-cell-lung-cancer
Curative, Life-Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy: New Outcomes Need New Names https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28550031/
Association of Financial Strain With Symptom Burden and Quality of Life for Patients With Lung or Colorectal Cancer https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26926678/
How Structural Racism Works – Racist Policies as a Root Cause of US Racial Health Inequities https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33326717/
