NETWise Episode 27: NETs & Race

We hear a lot about the need for diversity and inclusion in health care, and we know there is a need for more diversity in NET clinical trials. In looking at the issue of race and medicine there are four major factors that influence health outcomes and that deserve scientific investigation. First, is your genes and your specific ancestry. Second is epigenetics, which is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Third, is how you are treated by others, especially how you are treated by health care staff, institutions and systems in your setting. Fourth, is the physical environment you live in, your family and community. Listen to this newest NETWise podcast as we take a look at these factors with the experts and talk and learn more about NETs and race.

Acknowledgements:

Thank you Erica Roberts and Suzie Ludlow for sharing their own stories. Erica is the daughter of the late William Preston Roberts, Jr. He was diagnosed in 2008 and he passed away in 2016. Suzanne Ludlow is a member of NETRF’s Board of Directors. Her husband, Vince, was an African-American man who passed away from NETs in 2017.

Dr. Katherine McElroy is a resident physician in Houston, Texas and is affiliated with The University of Alabama.

Dr. Clayton Yates is a Professor of Pathology, Oncology, Urologic-Oncology
Director for Translational Health Disparities and Global Health Equity Research, Program Co-Leader for Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland

Dr. Heloisa Soares, a medical oncologist specializing in NETs at the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah.  Dr. Katherine McElroy is a resident physician in Houston, Texas and is affiliated with The University of Alabama.  Dr. Brendan Herring is a member of Dr. Bart Rose’s team at the University of Alabama Birmingham who has work on a 2020 BTSI-funded research project on molecular influences of racial disparities in black patients with pNETs.

Dr. Brendan Herring is a member of Dr. Bart Rose’s team at the University of Alabama Birmingham who has work on a 2020 BTSI-funded research project on molecular influences of racial disparities in black patients with pNETs.