You’re invited to “Gynecologic Healthcare Inequities: Making Sense of Cervical Cancer and Fibroids Misdiagnoses” with Dr. Onyinye Balogun, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine and Chief Medical Officer/Co-Founder of Mission-Driven Tech, a women’s health venture that is transforming gynecologic cancer care with modern technology.

By age 35, 60% of Black women have fibroids, and by 50 years old, 80% of Black women have been diagnosed with them. Although fibroids are non-malignant tumors, their symptoms are often debilitating and overlap with those of gynecologic cancers. And when it comes to cervical cancer, the third most common gynecologic cancer, Black women have the highest mortality rate out of all racial groups in the united states.

These facts, combined with negligence, racism, and sexism by medical providers and healthcare systems are directly related to the deaths of Black women from preventable and treatable gynecologic cancers. As in the case of the late Jessica Pettway, we continue to hear stories of how those with the power and responsibility to provide healthcare dismiss Black women’s health concerns and gynecologic symptoms as “just fibroids”, only to find out too late that these were signs of cancer.

Join us on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 for a community conversation in which we try to make sense of the continued misdiagnoses of Black women with these gynecologic conditions. 

Here’s to holding the healthcare system accountable and empowering us all with culturally affirming information 👩🏾‍⚕️

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