Lymphoma Awareness
Brian T. Hill, MD, PhD
VIDEO: Health disparities in DLBCL care
Transcript
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Health disparities are a big problem across oncology, and in lymphoma as well. One of the biggest issues we see with disparities is that not all patients get to a referral center that has capabilities of cell therapy or transplant, or clinical trials. And the reasons for that are many. It could be age, it could be socioeconomic factors, it could be geographic factors that preclude patients from always traveling to referral centers. So, that's part of it. And then, of course, there's other more complex reasons related to insurance coverage and other determinants of health outcomes.