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Select Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity Presentations at ASCO 2021

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Jun 10, 2021

The American Society of Clinical Oncology’s 2021 Annual Meeting took place virtually for the second year in a row on June 4-8. Compiled is a short list of abstracts and posters from the Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity Presentations.

Oral Abstracts

• The association of the affordable care’s Medicaid expansion on survival in gynecologic cancer: A National Cancer Database study.

• The association of sexual orientation with cancer screening and diagnosis.

• Association between Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act and survival among newly diagnosed cancer patients.

Posters

• Disparities in ovarian cancer treatment and overall survival according to race: An update.

• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on African American cancer survivors living in metropolitan Detroit.

• Race-related disparities in patterns of uterine cancer recurrence.