Promoting Equitable Cancer Care and Research in Chicago's Communities of Color in support of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society – Registration
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While cancer affects all of us, due to systemic social, environmental, and economic disadvantages, African American and LatinX communities bear a disproportionate burden. Communities of color, including those on the South and West Sides of Chicago, face greater obstacles to cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and survival. This reality results in significantly higher death rates and substantially shorter survival rates for most cancers—a stark and unjust inequality that demands our attention. However, this disparity is not insurmountable.
Join Mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Simbo Ige, Assistant Professor at University of Chicago Medicine Dr. Edwin McDonald, Member of the Board of Trustees, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Tawa Mitchell and cancer survivor and advocate Adrian Talbott for a meaningful conversation on how we can work to close this gap and promote equitable cancer care.
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