Reducing Disparities for Cancer Patients and Use of Cancer Genetic Testing in Clinical Practice

#ASCO19 #JAMAMedNews In this live video JAMA Oncology Web Editor Howard (Jack) West, MD, of the City of Hope Cancer Center, discusses disparities in access for cancer patients and the state of next-generation sequencing in oncology clinical practice with JAMA Medical News’ senior staff writer Rebecca Voelker. The live video was filmed at the onset of the June 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting (#ASCO19) and reviews important meeting themes and new research published co-incident with the meeting. Read the two papers that @JackWestMD discusses in this #ASCO19 video:

From JAMA Oncology:
Self-reported Reasons and Patterns of Noninsurance Among Cancer Survivors Before and After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act, 2000-2017

From JAMA:
Association of Patient Characteristics and Tumor Genomics With Clinical Outcomes Among Patients With Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Using a Clinicogenomic Database