Duma Discusses the Unique Challenges of Women With Lung Cancer (Continued)

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In the second of a two-part series, I sat down again with Narjust Duma, MD, a physician and associate director of the Cancer Equity Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, to talk about the unique challenges facing women with lung cancer.

Although lung cancer is the second-leading cancer in women and the leading cause of cancer deaths, the danger of lung cancer is often overlooked. Moreover, women make up only 39% of participants in lung cancer clinical trials. Dr Duma said the lack of women in trials has major ramifications.

In our exclusive interview, Dr Duma discussed improving diversity in trials and in oncology providers, how the oncology field fails women in general and women of color in particular, and the stress lung cancer puts on a woman’s home life.

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