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
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INCLUSION PLEDGE
Take the #InclusionPledge at Change.org
Visit the Tigerlily pledge page to read more and pledge

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Tigerlily Foundation
GRASP at SABC (San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium)
Storm Riders Network: GRASP
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Beth Caldwell’s blog
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ADDITIONAL INFO ON DISPARITIES IN HEALTHCARE
Breast Cancer and Race: Disparities and Mental Health Effects
Many Medical Decision Tools Disadvantage Black Patients
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ADVOCATING FOR YOURSELF
Everyday Health: 6 Things Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer Want You to Know
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN): Guidelines for Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients 

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