Binaytara shared a post on LinkedIn:
“On the Navajo Nation, home to approximately 173,000 people, there are no oncologists.
Patients travel hundreds of miles for cancer treatment. Screening is inaccessible. Clinical trials were never designed with these communities in mind. Precision oncology, as a concept, assumes infrastructure that simply does not exist here.
Dr. Monica Yellowhair, PhD, of the University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center writes about this honestly and urgently in her latest expert commentary for us. She addresses the workforce crisis in tribal communities, why culturally grounded care and community navigators have moved the needle on screening rates, and what ethical research partnerships with tribal nations actually require.”
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