Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening Persist During COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 worsened breast cancer screening disparities, with minority groups lagging behind and existing health gaps persisting.
According to data, breast cancer screening disparities persisted in the first year of COVID-19, and screening of some minority groups did not bounce back as well as it did for White women. According to Debra Patt, M.D., Ph.D., MBA, Executive Vice President, Public Policy, Payer Relations, and Strategic Initiatives at Texas Oncology, what’s worrisome is that the combined two-year lag in screenings we are reporting will translate into not only more and more severe breast cancer cases, but that the cancer health disparities we already knew existed have remained stubbornly unmoved.
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