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GRYT Health and Bristol Myers Squibb Team Up to Launch Diversity in Oncology Initiative

Published: 2021-10-14 15:52:00 ET
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Initiative aims to highlight current inequities from the voice of individuals experiencing them and co-create structural change

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In light of the health disparities in oncology, GRYT Health (“grit”), an oncology solutions company that was started and run by cancer survivors, and Bristol Myers Squibb, have partnered to launch Diversity in Oncology, a virtual platform available at www.diversityinoncology.com to highlight and raise awareness of the health disparities in oncology facing diverse patients in the U.S.

As one example of a racial disparity that exists in oncology, according to the National Institute of Health, “The invasive breast cancer age-adjusted mortality rate for black women age