Global perspectives on blood cancers: addressing disparities in awareness, diagnosis, and treatment

Welcome to the first episode of VJHemOnc's Blood Cancer Awareness Month special series!  This episode focuses on global perspectives of blood cancers and addresses the disparities that exist in awareness, diagnosis, and treatment. First, Lalit Kumar, MD, MBBS, Artemis Hospital, New Delhi, India, discusses challenges that exist in the management of blood cancers in India, and programs that are in place to address these. Joseph Mikhael, MD, MEd, FRCPC, FACP, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix, AZ, then goes on to address racial disparities in the treatment of multiple myeloma in America. Amrutha Sridhar, MBBS, University College London Hospitals, London, UK, discusses socioeconomic and racial disparities in myeloma trial recruitment, followed by Brian Koffman, MDCM (retired), MS Ed, CLL Society, Inc., Chula Vista, CA, who shares insights into a survey investigating global disparities in access to treatment and resources for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in low-income countries.