First Lady Jill Biden toured the Mays Cancer Center and talked with experts about health disparities in the Latino community related to cancer.
First Lady Jill Biden shakes the hand of John"David" Orr, who is joined by his wife Cynthia, a breast cancer survivor who participated in the Mays Cancer Center's rehabilitation program.First Lady Jill Biden visited UT Health San Antonio’s Mays Cancer Center Wednesday for a tour and discussion about health disparities in the Latino community related to cancer diagnosis and treatment.initiative earlier this month. Biden was accompanied Wednesday by Dr.
Patients at the center shared their stories with the first lady, with one breast cancer survivor, Cynthia Orr, saying she was distraught when she learned other breast cancer patients who developed lymphedema, a common complication after breast cancer treatment, couldn’t afford compression wraps to treat the condition.
The first lady said she and the president will continue having conversations with the Latino and indigenous communities, as well as other underserved communities. First Lady Jill Biden discusses cancer health disparities in the Latino community with researchers and advocates at the Mays Cancer Center Wednesday as part of the Biden administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative.
“Those correlate so well with our high poverty …,” he said. “We are as a community trying to attack poverty from a number of different angles.”
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