Top 10 in 2023: Women in Oncology’s most-read stories of the year
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Women in oncology continued to break barriers, unveil new research and accomplish goals in 2023.
Here are Healio’s top 10 stories of the year that highlight the work women are doing in the field to address systemic barriers in the workplace, bring national issues to light and continue advocating for patients.
Female physicians experience greater earnings penalty due in part to marriage, children
Marriage and children appeared associated with a greater earnings penalty among female physicians because of less hours worked when compared with their male counterparts, according to study results published in JAMA Health Forum. Read more.
BLOG: Addressing ‘pinkwashing’ — it’s time to use the pink ribbon for actual action
“Every October, there are pink ribbons everywhere for breast cancer awareness month.
It often raises the question: “How much of the money spent on products branded with pink ribbons is actually going toward supporting breast cancer research and advocacy?” Laila Agrawal, MD, and Eleonora Teplinsky, MD, wrote in an article for Women in Oncology and Women in Medicine’s collaborative blog. Read more.
On finance, expert says spend less than you make, invest now, save for retirement
Disha Spath, MD, FACP, recalled back to her college years wanting to understand why certain people seemed to have their finances together whereas others did not.
Once she finished her medical training, with hundreds of thousands in student debt and became the sole earner in her family, she soon understood why some did not seem to have their “financial ducks in a row.” Read more.
Researcher aims to combat high smoking rates among construction workers
The Florida Department of Health awarded a more than $1.4 million grant to Taghrid Asfar, MD, MSPH, to develop new smoking cessation treatments for construction workers. The goal of the current grant is to support her continued efforts in improving smoking cessation outcomes among high-risk populations. Read more.
Dobbs decision could worsen physician shortages in some states
The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Initiative decision in June 2022 had, and continues to have, broad implications for reproductive health rights nationwide.
When the Supreme Court decision came out, it became increasingly apparent that it will impact not only patients with cancer, but also the physicians caring for those patients, Morgan S. Levy, BS, MD/MPH-student at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, told Healio. Read more.
Women notably underrepresented in clinical trial leadership
Women appeared significantly underrepresented as first authors of thousands of randomized controlled trials compared with men, according to study results published in Contemporary Clinical Trials. Read more.
BLOG: Prior authorizations deny patients necessary medical care
“Our health care system is broken on multiple levels. As a medical community, we somehow seem to be hastening its untimely demise by continuing to partake in systems that waste inordinate amounts of time and result in the delivery of suboptimal patient care, such as the burdensome, inefficient, time-consuming and overall unnecessary prior authorization system,” Shikha Jain, MD, FACP, wrote in an article for Women in Oncology and Women in Medicine’s collaborative blog. Read more.
ASCO chief medical officer advises to get into ‘good trouble,’ not accept status quo
Julie R. Gralow, MD, FACP, FASCO, knows the impact science and research can have on patient care and has dedicated her medical career to working with patients with cancer to better their lives. Read more.
Family-building difficulties among female physicians, trainees ‘not hyperbole’
Explicit and implicit messages toward female physicians and trainees to wait to have children have led to significant challenges in family building compared with women in other professions and the general public. Read more.
Healing with intention: Emotional connection key to transforming care
Physicians should treat the patient experience the same as medical procedures — with intention, according to a speaker at the Women in Medicine Summit.
Rana L. Awdish, MD, FCCP, FACP, medical director of care experience at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, said the current state of medicine can be transformed, but the only way to do that is by doing it together. Read more.
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