During Black History Month and the one-year anniversary of the reigniting of the President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, VA invites you to special virtual event highlighting how VA is bringing equitable cancer care to Black Veterans.
Join here: https://youtube.com/live/TGhd_DWM2fI.
What is equity in cancer care?
Whether it’s through cancer screening, treatment, clinical trials or survivorship programs, the cancer care VA provides is not affected by a Veteran’s gender, race or ethnicity, location or socioeconomic status.
VA welcomes all members of the military and Veteran community to participate in the “Health Equity for Black Veterans Drives Progress in Cancer Care” virtual live event. Visit Feb. 27, 2023, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. ET to view the live discussion.
Veteran advocates, VA providers and others will share how VA is bringing equitable cancer care to Black Veterans:
- Ernest Moy (they/them), executive director, VHA Office of Health Equity
- Tanja Thompson (she/her), U.S. Air Force Veteran and 2x breast cancer survivor
- Eric Jones, U.S. Army Veteran, metastatic lung cancer patient
- Monica Lewis-Jones, spouse of Eric Jones
- Isla Garraway (she/her), staff physician, urologist, Greater Los Angeles VAMC
- Tiniska “Jade” Brooks, RN (she/her), MBA, National TeleOncology Hub care coordinator
Delivering on the Cancer Moonshot promise
President Biden announced the re-launch of Cancer Moonshot to refocus cancer research, diagnosis and treatment with a single goal in mind: Reducing the number of cancer deaths by 50% over the next 25 years.
VA cares for over 450,000 Veterans with cancer and sees approximately 43,000 new cancer diagnoses every year. Often, Veterans treated for cancer at VA have better outcomes than they would elsewhere.
VA’s Cancer Moonshot initiatives are supporting a greater emphasis on health equity through targeted outreach to historically underserved communities and programs that actively work to reduce barriers to our best-in-class cancer care.
Learn more about cancer care and VA
Veterans are strongly encouraged to talk to their VA provider about the need for different cancer screenings and what screening options are available.
To learn more about cancer care at VA, visit cancer.va.gov.
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What in the world does “equity in cancer care” mean?
Are you saying black veterans were purposely excluded from receiving cancer treatment in VA healthcare facilities, but now they finally have access because you’re having this virtual event?
Can you please show us the facts/data you have that shows black veterans were excluded from cancer care from the VA? If you have no facts/data, then this event is just eyewash so you can feel good about yourselves.