The Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity (ACCURE) clinical trial—a prospective study designed to reduce gaps in cancer treatment completion and survival among Black and white patient populations— found that identifying and addressing obstacles that kept patients from finishing radiation treatments improved five-year survival rates for all patients and erased the survival gap between Black and white patients.
In his new book, “No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson,” Gardiner Harris, who was previously the public health and pharmaceutical business reporter for The New York Times, talks about the history of the overuse of red blood cell growth factors in oncology.
