hematology oncology

Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) often face inadequate care, which can lead to unnecessary hospital visits and preventable complications. Barriers to care for patients with SCD span individual, interpersonal, provider, and socio-environmental levels. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a severe, inherited disorder that disproportionately affects African Americans in the United States. Despite available treatments,...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common form of leukemia in the United States. In fact, it is often considered a disease primarily isolated to the Western world. There are remarkable patterns in the incidence of the disease among ethnicities. It most commonly appears in Caucasian individuals and markedly less so in non-Caucasians. For...