The new clinic aims to give Hispanic women critical access to care and treatment once they've been diagnosed.
CHICAGO -- A new breast cancer clinic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital aims to give Hispanic women critical access to care and treatment once they've been diagnosed. The Lurie Cancer Center Hispanic Breast Cancer Clinic, which opened in September, was created to address disparities between Hispanic women and White women when it comes to screening, treatment, and research. It's led by Dr. Claudia Tellez, a Colombian-born Oncologist.
'Many of the Hispanic patients are presenting later for their screening tests or presenting with more advanced cancers, when they've already discovered lumps in their breasts and maybe they've delayed for months coming for help,' Tellez said. 'The other factor is that their cancers actually are more aggressive, they grow more rapidly and so when we discover them, their stages are more advanced.
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New Hispanic breast cancer clinic at Northwestern Memorial HospitalThere's a new breast cancer clinic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital aimed at giving Hispanic women critical access to care and treatment once they've been diagnosed. Dr. Claudia Tellez, Oncologist with Lurie Center at Northwestern Medicine, joined The Stream. a href='https://www.cancer.northwestern.
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