Barriers to Receiving Optimal Cancer Treatment

Today's episode is focused on barriers to cancer care and cancer treatment.
Care and treatment options have been rapidly advancing over the past several decades, to the point where there are many effective therapies to manage even advanced cancers.
This is great news for those with access to these advanced therapeutics. However for others, significant barriers impede their ability to access these treatments.
In this video, we go through what these barriers are, and how they could be overcome.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Importance of Health Literacy
01:44 - Lack of Access to Screening
02:35 - Navigating Complicated Health Systems
03:48 - Importance of an Accurate Diagnosis
04:40 - Overwhelming Number of Choices
05:25 - Advanced Diagnostics
08:00 - The Value of Clinical Trials
10:20 - Molecular Analysis & Liquid Biopsy
14:52 - Multidisciplinary Care is Best
15:42 - How Clinical Trials Work
18:32 - Summary

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Importance of Health Literacy
01:44 - Lack of Access to Screening
02:35 - Navigating Complicated Health Systems
03:48 - Importance of an Accurate Diagnosis
04:40 - Overwhelming Number of Choices
05:25 - Advanced Diagnostics
08:00 - The Value of Clinical Trials
10:20 - Molecular Analysis & Liquid Biopsy
14:52 - Multidisciplinary Care is Best
15:42 - How Clinical Trials Work
18:32 - Summary

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