Testing changes outcomes for women with high risk for breast and ovarian cancers. But women of color—and Latina women in particular—face barriers their white counterparts do not. Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania’s Basser Center for BCRA are leading the charge to close the gap.
at Penn Medicine, part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. A medical oncologist who works in genetic testing and cancer management, Domchek is specifically invested in providing access and information to women of color. “We have been really interested in trying to narrow that gap, and that is both by provider education but also patient education,” she says., an associate professor of medicine at Penn Medicine who works closely with communities of color, shares the same sentiment.
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