Derrick J Beech, MD, FACS

Here's a hard truth: two people can walk into the same hospital with the same cancer, and walk out with very different odds — not because of their biology, but because of everything that happened before they ever got sick. That's the story behind cancer disparities in Black communities. Black Americans face higher mortality rates for several major cancers — breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung — despite similar, and sometimes even lower, rates of getting the disease in the first place. Let...