BOSTON -- African American breast cancer patients face a 40% higher mortality rate than white patients, driven in part by well-documented barriers to radiation therapy -- logistical, informational, and systemic.
To test whether structured patient navigation can close the gap, a team at the University of Oklahoma launched the Navigator-Assisted Hypofractionation (NAVAH) program. Afua Ofori-Darko, a medical student at Case Western Reserve, presented early phase I results and joined AuntMinnie.com to discuss the program's findings.
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