Health Disparities

The Bloodline Live: Emphasizing the Patient Voice in Young Adult Cancer Care

Leave a Comment / Children and young adults, English, Health Disparities, Mental Health, Survivorship

When adolescents and young adults (AYA) are diagnosed with cancer, they face unique challenges that aren’t seen as frequently in other age groups.  Healthcare and nonprofit professionals around the world are listening to patients and researching these issues to improve quality of life during and after treatment. In this episode, we are taking you onsite to the […]

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Community Outreach in The Field: Red, Bred & Led Houston

Leave a Comment / Caregivers, English, Health Disparities, Myeloma

Please join us for the latest episode of our Community Outreach In The Field series, where our field correspondents, comprised of LLS Staff, will be on the ground interviewing health advocates, patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals in the communities in which they serve. These episodes will make listeners feel like they are right in the

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Chipping Away at the Iceberg: Addressing Healthcare Disparities and Equity

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Join us live from Miami, FL, as we talk about healthcare disparities and equity with Dr. Erin Kobetz of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Seth Berkowitz, Director of Patient and Community Outreach at LLS. In this episode, we discuss how organizations like Sylvester and LLS work together to address healthcare gaps and barriers that patients

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Community Outreach In The Field: Blood and Chess Atlanta

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Please join us for a brand new series called, Community Outreach In The Field, where our field correspondents, comprised of LLS Staff, will be interviewing health advocates, patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals in the communities in which they serve. These episodes will give the listener the feel that they are right in the middle of

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En Español: Asistencia Financiera Después de su Diagnóstico

Leave a Comment / Español, Health Disparities, Tratamiento

Únase a nosotros mientras hablamos con Ana Zermeño y Ana Victoria Portillo sobre asistencia financiera y recursos para pacientes que enfrentan un diagnóstico de cáncer de la sangre. Ana Zermeño es trabajadora social del Centro Médico de la Universidad de California en San Francisco. Ana Victoria Portillo, también trabajadora social, es Especialista en Información en

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Addressing Racial Health Disparities Through Community Outreach

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Join us as we speak to Dr. Lorna McNeill, a Professor and Associate Director for Health Disparities and Community Outreach at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, along with a special guest from our LLS Patient and Community Outreach team, Erika Pomares. In this episode, Dr. McNeill shares how people of color, particularly African

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Patient-Doctor Perspectives: Hope for Myeloma Patients

Leave a Comment / Coronavirus (COVID-19), English, Health Disparities, Myeloma

Join us in this next installment of our series, Patient-Doctor Perspectives, where we explore a diagnosis from the view of a patient and doctor. In this episode, we speak to Bryon Daily, a myeloma survivor and Dr. Scott Solomon from Northside Hospital in Atlanta, GA. Diagnosed in 2018, Bryon shares his experience living with myeloma after

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Patient-Doctor Perspectives: Groundbreaking Research in CML

5 Comments / Chronic myeloid leukemia, Clinical Trials, English, Episodes, Health Disparities

Join us in this next installment of our series, Patient-Doctor Perspectives, where we explore a diagnosis from the view of a patient and doctor. To celebrate the 100th episode of The Bloodline with LLS, we will be speaking with Mel Mann, a chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) survivor and Dr. Brian Druker, a physician researcher at Oregon Health Sciences University

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Patient-Doctor Perspectives: CLL and a Decade of Transformation

7 Comments / Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) t-cell therapy, Chronic lymphoblastic leukemia, Coronavirus (COVID-19), English, Episodes, Health Disparities

Join us in this next installment of our series, Patient-Doctor Perspectives, where we explore a diagnosis from the view of a patient and doctor. In this episode, we speak to Dr. Larry Saltzman, a Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) survivor and physician researcher and Dr. Steven Coutre from Stanford Medicine. Dr. Larry shares his experience living with

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Making Your Mark: A Transgender Cancer Patient Story

Leave a Comment / Advocacy, English, Health Disparities, Hodgkin lymphoma, Survivorship

Join us as we speak with Chelsea Brickham, a transgender model, actress, and professional cosplayer who was diagnosed with Stage II Hodgkin lymphoma in 2013. In this episode, Chelsea shares with us what it was like to go through cancer as a transgender female, the reaction from her family and friends, and how she maintained her

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Facing Racial Disparities as a Black Disabled Patient

1 Comment / Advocacy, Children and young adults, English, Health Disparities, Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Survivorship

Join us as we speak to Ola Ojewumi, a patient and health advocate with Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD), a type of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. In this episode, Ola tells us about the difficulties she has faced as a Black disabled woman with chronic pain. She shares her experiences with racism and inequities in healthcare and how

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Hodgkin Lymphoma Part 2: Struggles of a Young Adult with Cancer

Leave a Comment / Children and young adults, English, Episodes, Health Disparities, Hodgkin lymphoma, Lymphoma, Survivorship

Join us for Part Two of a special two-part series as we speak to Dr. Christabel Cheung, a two-time Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivor. In this episode, Christabel talks about her extraordinary struggles as a young adult with cancer, such as living alone without family support and having high healthcare costs. She also delves into the health

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Hodgkin Lymphoma Part 1: Struggles of a Young Adult with Cancer

Leave a Comment / Children and young adults, English, Episodes, Health Disparities, Hodgkin lymphoma, Lymphoma, Survivorship

Join us for a special two-part episode as we speak to Dr. Christabel Cheung, a two-time Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivor. In Part One, Christabel tells us about her longtime journey with lymphoma, including a relapse and going through the second diagnosis during a global pandemic. She shares her struggles of not only a diagnosis, where she

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Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities Within Healthcare

2 Comments / English, Health Disparities, Myeloma, Survivorship

Join this insightful conversation as Alicia, Edith and Lizette sit down to chat with Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, one of the nation’s leading scholars in the effort to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. Dr. Thomas is a Professor of Health Policy & Management and Director of the Maryland Center for Health Equity at the

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