
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this week on Basic Black, we bring together survivors and experts to discuss Included in this episode is a piece by host Crystal Haynes getting a follow up mammogram. According to the American Cancer Society, Black women are about 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women. They are often diagnosed with a more aggressive form of the disease and sometimes at a younger age. Crystal Haynes hosts.
Panelists:
Dr. Naomi Ko, Associate Professor, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, AND Medical Oncologist at Boston Medical Center
Nekia Clark, Director of Patient Services and Outreach at the Ellie Fund AND Co-Chair of the Boston Breast Equity Coalition...Nekia is also a breast cancer survivor.
Jani Raynor, Patient living with breast cancer AND a former patient of the Ellie Fund.
Karen Burns White, Deputy Associate Director, Initiative to Eliminate Cancer Disparities, Center for Cancer Equity and Engagement at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.
By GBH News4
44 ratings
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this week on Basic Black, we bring together survivors and experts to discuss Included in this episode is a piece by host Crystal Haynes getting a follow up mammogram. According to the American Cancer Society, Black women are about 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women. They are often diagnosed with a more aggressive form of the disease and sometimes at a younger age. Crystal Haynes hosts.
Panelists:
Dr. Naomi Ko, Associate Professor, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, AND Medical Oncologist at Boston Medical Center
Nekia Clark, Director of Patient Services and Outreach at the Ellie Fund AND Co-Chair of the Boston Breast Equity Coalition...Nekia is also a breast cancer survivor.
Jani Raynor, Patient living with breast cancer AND a former patient of the Ellie Fund.
Karen Burns White, Deputy Associate Director, Initiative to Eliminate Cancer Disparities, Center for Cancer Equity and Engagement at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.

91,297 Listeners

6,881 Listeners

43,687 Listeners

349 Listeners

1,192 Listeners

44 Listeners

14,655 Listeners

518 Listeners

113,121 Listeners

56,944 Listeners

10,331 Listeners

2,095 Listeners

159 Listeners

5,832 Listeners

690 Listeners

711 Listeners

248 Listeners

814 Listeners

3,476 Listeners