Source: Healio News
SALT LAKE CITY — Academic center outreach to community practices considerably increased stem cell transplant referrals for patients with multiple myeloma, according to study results.
The approach resulted in a significant increase in the number of Black patients who underwent transplant, findings presented at Tandem Meetings | Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of ASTCT and CIBMTR showed.
This suggests outreach efforts like this could reduce racial disparities in transplant receipt, researcher Vamsi Kota, MD, director of the bone marrow and stem cell transplantation program