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As a leader in cancer research, Karmanos is able to offer patients access to innovative treatments and clinical trials that are often times not available anywhere else.
To offer hope and longer life to patients with all types of cancer, Karmanos offers the latest types of therapy through our clinical trials program. Through clinical trials, we are creating new knowledge about how therapies fight cancer and provide national leadership in testing these new therapies.
We understand that cancer is a complex disease that demands complex care. We provide each patient with a dynamic, carefully constructed treatment plan focused on their specific cancer and their unique needs.
We listen to you to design a plan that provides you with respect, compassionate care and is responsive to your emotional and practical concerns.
WXYZ
Jim Scott, bladder and prostate cancer survivor and member of the Black Men’s Cancer Action Council through Karmanos’ Office of Cancer Health Equity and Community Engagement (OCHECE), along with Hayley Thompson, Ph.D., OCHECE faculty supervisor, associate center director for Community Outreach and Engagement at Karmanos, and professor of oncology at Wayne State University School of Medicine, talked to WXYZ’s Ameera David about a recent study that Dr. Thompson co-authored: “Association between major discrimination and deficit accumulation in African American cancer survivors: The Detroit Research on Cancer Survivors Study.” This study was published in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. Scott detailed the racism he has faced and how it has inspired him to fight for African Americans who face the disease.
Watch the story here.
Jim Scott, cancer survivor
Hayley Thompson, Ph.D.