May Edward Chinn: pioneer of early cancer detection

Despite her financial constraints, Chinn entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1922 as the only Black woman student in her year, continuing to work as a pathology technician. Yet no hospital in New York would appoint a Black woman to a residency position, giving her the authority to admit pat...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 402; no. 10412; p. 1519
Main Author Ferry, Georgina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Elsevier Ltd 28.10.2023
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Black people
Cancer
Diagnostic systems
History of medicine
Hospitals
Medical diagnosis
Medical education
Medical screening
Patients
Sex discrimination
New York
United States > US
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Summary:Despite her financial constraints, Chinn entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1922 as the only Black woman student in her year, continuing to work as a pathology technician. Yet no hospital in New York would appoint a Black woman to a residency position, giving her the authority to admit patients. Unable to persuade doctors at the Memorial Hospital's cancer centre in New York's Upper West Side to share their diagnostic data, she accompanied her patients to their consultations so that she could observe diagnostic techniques.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02365-6