Forbes July 2, 2024
In recent years, researchers in the United States and overseas have found striking disparities between income groups with respect to the level of cancer care they’re receiving. The poorer the patient, the less care they’ve gotten.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology issued a policy statement earlier this year declaring that in spite of decades of significant investments in expanding healthcare coverage and improving its delivery, health outcome “inequities in the U.S. persist by race, ethnicity, gender identity, disability, geography, and various other factors that are driven by the underlying social, economic, and environmental conditions faced by individuals and their communities.”
This is echoed by what the National Cancer Institute said when it affirmed that certain groups in the U.S....
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