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Episode: Racial disparities in pancreatic cancer screening cost Black lives
Description: Internal medicine physician Earl Stewart, Jr. discusses his article "Pancreatic cancer racial disparities." Earl examines the devastating pattern of pancreatic cancer claiming Black cultural icons like John Lewis and Aretha Franklin while the medical establishment fails to implement race-specific screening guidelines. He highlights research showing that high-risk individuals undergoing surveillance have a 50 percent five-year survival rate compared to just 9 percent for those diagnosed through usual care. The discussion challenges the current medical inertia that demands perfect data before acting and proposes a three-tier risk-stratified approach to save lives in Black communities. Listen to understand why we must stop waiting...