Voices challenging racial disparities in MBC and healthcare
Exploring life with MBC is our mission.
Everyone’s cancer is different but what should not be different is our access to healthcare, treatments and trials that can maintain our quality of life and improve overall survival. In this episode, our conversation with two women, Jersi Baker and Maimah Karmo who are using their voice to ask questions, challenge norms, and demand a change to who is sitting at the table and striving to create racial equity in the MBC and BC community.
SOCIAL/HASHTAGS
@Angeldisguise_
#Jersispeaks
@Maimah.com
@tigerlilycares
#InclusionPledge
#listenupMBC
INCLUSION PLEDGE
Take the #InclusionPledge at Change.org
Visit the Tigerlily pledge page to read more and pledge
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
https://www.tigerlilyfoundation.org/
https://angelindisguiseinc.org/
Metastatic Breast Cancer Project Count Me In
GRASP at SABC (San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium)
https://thestormriders.org/grasp/
https://www.sabcs.org/
Beth Caldwell’s blog
ADDITIONAL INFO ON DISPARITIES IN HEALTHCARE
The Inclusion Pledge: Advocating for the Inclusion of Black Women in Breast Health
https://www.facebook.com/BlackDoctor.org/videos/301052511031101
Yale Cancer Center Tumor Study Shows Triple-Negative Breast Cancer has Different Biology in African Americans https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/25575/
Breast Cancer and Race: Disparities and Mental Health Effects
https://www.breastcancer.org/community/podcasts/race-care-disparities-20200608?flip
Many Medical Decision Tools Disadvantage Black Patients
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/health/many-medical-decision-tools-disadvantage-black-patients.html?referringSource=articleShare
Treatment barriers create racial disparities in cancer care. They need to come down
https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/24/cancer-care-racial-disparities-dismantle-barriers/?fbclid=IwAR36rKDgdJAdSSp1AsycwHU60QSk4z9Nerowv2I2L_nSu9CZZgePYe4Y2S0
ADVOCATING FOR YOURSELF
http://mbcn.org/for-the-newly-diagnosed/
https://www.everydayhealth.com/breast-cancer/metastatic-breast-cancer-questions-for-your-doctor.aspx
https://www.nccn.org/patients/guidelines/content/PDF/nccnquickguide-breast_metastatic-patient.pdf
https://www.nccn.org/patients/guidelines/content/PDF/stage_iv_breast-patient.pdf
TALKMETS HELPLINE
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https://www.sharecancersupport.org/metastatic-breast-cancer/helpline/
