Wayne Frederick

Apr 5, 2024 | cancerletter.com | Wayne Frederick

In an article for the Cancer History Project, the American Cancer Society and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network celebrate six trailblazing Black leaders and pioneers who have made a lasting impact on health equity in oncology. Black Leaders Who Changed the Face of Equitable Cancer CareBy American Cancer Society, April 4, 2024Everyone deserves a fair and just opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Jul 12, 2023 | ajc.com | David Carlisle |Wayne Frederick |James Hildreth |Valerie Montgomery-Rice

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate race as a consideration for university admissions will have reverberations far beyond college campuses and the potential to increase health disparities in underserved Black and brown communities across the country, with potentially life-threatening impact.

Mar 17, 2023 | modernhealthcare.com | Wayne Frederick |Nancy G. Brinker

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, to 76.4 years from 77 the prior year. The change was largely driven by COVID-19 and drug overdoses, but cancer remains the second-leading cause of death. According to the American Cancer Society, 2020 saw 9.4 million missed cancer screenings in the United States.

Feb 3, 2023 | cancerletter.com | Robert A. Winn |Otis Brawley |Wayne Frederick

The past ten days have seen an outpouring of emotions as American society, devastated by the tragic murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers, plunges into a crisis of conscience. Floyd’s death may be a pivotal point in America, similar to the televised beating of peaceful civil rights marchers by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965.