A significant lack of research on cancer in Black communities in Canada is hurting the population, and data urgently needs to be collected in order to improve the health-care system and patient outcomes, according to a new study.
While the U.S. has long established cancer outcomes are often worse in Black people, Canada is failing to even gather a base understanding of the experiences of racialized people in health care, study authors told CTVNews.ca.to assess the landscape of cancer research in Black communities in Canada, which involved examining whether gaps and disparities were being addressed.
And these results weren’t surprising, said Elisabeth Dromer, a PhD student at the University’s School of Psychology and one of the lead authors of the study, in an interview with CTVNews.ca Wednesday.
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