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One in three men and one in two women will have a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Mishellene McKinney, MHA, RN, OCN, Vice President, Cancer Care Services, Kaiser Permanente; and Anand Shah, MD, MS, Vice President, Social Health, Kaiser Permanente, discussed this during their presentation, “Integrating Social Determinants of Health,” at the 2022 Oncology Clinical Pathways Congress.
“Over 42% of cancer is preventable through modifiable risk factors like diet, exercise, and smoking,” McKinney said. “But it really isn’t enough to try to target those risk factors at the individual level. You really need to think about the social determinants of health, which are the factors that impact the environments in which we are born, live, work, play, and worship.”