This week's news from the Center on Health Equity and Access discusses racial disparities in prostate cancer outcomes, the impact of access to cancer care on racial gaps in CLL/SLL outcomes, the effects of 340B programs on drug pricing and health care disparities, the role of mental illness in maternal mortality rates, and racial bias and diagnosis disparities in bipolar disorder.
Despite socioeconomic and biological differences that contribute to disparities between Black men and White men with prostate cancer, improved access has been shown to reduce the gaps, explained Jun Gong, MD, of Cedars Sinai.