Black Health Matters

JUNE 15, 2024

Sydney Barned, MD, is a stage 4 lung cancer survivor and advocate. Dr. Barned graduated from the University of The West Indies Faculty of Medical Sciences Jamaica in 2012 and is currently a practicing internal medicine specialist at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland. It was during her year of medical residency when she noticed decreased exercise endurance and began wheezing, which later resulted in her lung cancer diagnosis.

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Black Health Matters

JUNE 15, 2024

Kevin Pruitt, MD, PhD is a medical scientist who completed his PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the Einstein Institute of Medicine and his medical degree at the University of Science and Technology School of Medicine in Arvada, Colorado. Dr. Pruitt has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in various medical journals. His research interests include minority health affairs, sickle cell anemia, and HIV in minority populations.

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Black Health Matters

JUNE 15, 2024

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) makes up nearly 90% of all head and neck cancers. 1,2 This type of head and neck cancer typically includes cancers of the throat, nasal cavity, sinuses, nose, mouth, and larynx (voice box). 2,3 Head and neck cancers are more common in men than women, and in those over the age of 50.3, You are more likely to be impacted by head and neck cancers if you use tobacco or alcohol or if you have been diagnosed with oral human papillomavirus (HPV). 3 In a recent study , Blac

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