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In 2021, the Cancer Community Awards, sponsored by AstraZeneca, created a new award category,

the Catalyst for Equity Award. This award celebrates those who strive to overcome disparities

in cancer care to bring quality services to their patients. The organization Equal Hope won this

first ever award for its work eradicating health disparities among Chicago

women with breast cancer. As we prepared for this year's awards, we reconnected with Dr.

Anne-Marie Murphy, the Executive Director of Equal Hope, to learn more about what's happened

since her organization received the award. Well, Dr. Anne-Marie Murphy, I'm so

excited for this opportunity to talk with you today. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for having me.

If you're explaining your organization as someone who is not in the health field, who hasn't

encountered cancer, how do you explain what you do? So Equal Hope was set up in 2008 after the publication

of very disturbing data that showed that black women in Chicago die of breast cancer at a

rate higher than white women. But in other cities, in New York and San Francisco,

there was almost no disparity in the death rate.

So we were established as a citywide collaborative

to address this disparity

and to really dig deep into understanding our healthcare system, the quality of mammography

and breast cancer treatment, and other barriers that women encounter to accessing the best

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