MD Anderson Cancer Center has established the Texas Health Equity Alliance for Breast Cancer (THEAL), a community-wide health care initiative to reduce breast cancer disparities in the Houston area, particularly for Black women.
University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center researchers have developed a novel prompt, or ‘nudge,’ embedded in the electronic health record that flags, for treating surgeons, older patients with early-stage breast cancer who may be at risk for unnecessary lymph node surgery.
