As the largest financial supporter of medical research in the US, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has helped uncover health disparities in cancer incidence, prevalence, and outcomes.

Grants funded with that federal money aimed at reducing disparities have also included initiatives that enhanced the health of all patients with cancer. An example of these in the ACCURE study — Accountability for Cancer Care Through Undoing Racism and Equity — a system-based intervention to reduce Black-White disparities in treating early stage lung cancer that’s now featured on the HDPulse site as one of the 23 interventions that improves minority health.

Not only does that intervention resolve disparities between Black and White patients but “it actually also shows markedly improved care for

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