The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician group, voted at its Annual Meeting to adopt the following new policy.
According to the National Cancer Institute, minority women have a significantly higher cancer mortality rate than Caucasian women. In an effort to combat this troubling fact, the AMA adopted new policy urging more research and funding to address the racial and ethnic disparities in cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment among minority women.
“There continues to be great disparities in the detection and treatment of cancer among minority women,” said AMA Board Member Samantha Rosman, M.D. “Physicians must work to promote cancer education to their minority patients in a way that is understandable and culturally sensitive.”
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