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I don't normally watch TV on a morning, but I stayed at my Mum's last night and she always has the news as she gets ready for the day. I'm glad to have caught this item on the breakfast show this morning. Post-doc and CEO of Black in Cancer, Sigourney Bonner, highlights the stark inequity we see in cancer diagnosis, experiences, and mortality. A study by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and NHS Digital found Black women were more likely than white women to be diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Research by the Race Equality Foundation also found that Black patients reported more negative experiences of cancer care than white patients. Sigourney put it perfectly when she said Black people are "underrepresented in research" and "overrepresented in cancer mortality". #BlackInCancer #HealthInequity #InclusiveResearch #CancerResearch #PatientsFirst #HealthResearch #Inequalities #DemandDiversity https://lnkd.in/eQ4tM_P7
Dr Saher Ahmed
3mo
Fantastic to see the brilliant Black in Cancer work being discussed and shared on TV 😃 Congratulations Sigourney Bonner and the incredible BiC team 👏🏽
Catherine Renaud
3mo
I am new to DEI in Research and Healthcare. I am ashamed to realise how little I knew about initiatives such as Black in Cancer and the tremendous work that is being done.
Joshua Darley
3mo
Watch out Sigourney Bonner is going places 🚀
Mandy Tucker
3mo
Such phenomenal work is being done by Sigourney and her team. So proud of you! 😍
An inspiration doing amazing work Sigourney Bonner - Thank you.
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3moSadly, it’s the same for Black women in Multiple Sclerosis, but it’s tricky for me to gather more evidence to prove this, as ethnicity health data is being poorly recorded and collected for Multiple Sclerosis in the UK. The UK has a significant racism problem and has had many opportunities to address it. I called for a new race report to replace the inadequate race report from 2021, but due to an early election, all parliamentary petitions were ended until a new government was in place and a new parliamentary petitions team was established. I am still waiting. I hope that now more people will sign my parliamentary petition once they have a new petitions team. I discuss this in my newsletter. If the UK doesn’t address its racism problem—whether overt racism, covert racism, systemic racism, or institutional racism and all the fancy names it is called, then this will continue happening. As I mentioned in one of my LinkedIn newsletters, “PROTECT THE BLACK WOMAN.” It literally is a matter of life and death for many of us. Are we going to keep NOT TALKING about the big racism elephant in the room? or is the government going to step up and do something? We are tired.