VIDEO: ASCO presentations address racial disparities in breast cancer
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In this video, Holly Pederson, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University, discusses how presentations at ASCO addressed implicit bias and racial disparities in the health care system.
She explained that there were many presentations on these issues in breast cancer, “all the way from identification of genetic carriers to testing, to treatment, to adherence to treatment, to survivorship, to prevention factors such as nutrition and obesity.”
Pederson noted that research she presented on a global polygenic risk score for breast cancer “aimed to make the polygenic risk score more equitable among all women, and this was really an issue in the past.”
Pederson and colleagues determined that the risk score was validated among all women, regardless of their ancestry.
“A lot of the disparities work was really interesting, and our work was really aimed in that direction,” Pederson said.
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