Structural Racism — A 60-Year-Old Black Woman with Breast Cancer

Structural Racism: A 60-Year-Old Black Woman with Breast Cancer

Structural Racism — A 60-Year-Old Black Woman with Breast CancerRead our contribution to the New England Journal of Medicine‘s “Case Studies in Social Medicine” series.

Many hospitals in Chicago’s largely black neighborhoods lack an American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Center designation. This designation provides a quality framework to guide cancer care. Of the 12 Chicago hospitals with this designation, only 2 are located on the city’s predominantly black South Side.

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