Recognizing February 4, 2024, as “World Cancer Day”, and its theme “Close the Care Gap”, to raise awareness about and launch efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic inequities and disparities in cancer care both in the United States and globally.

supports “World Cancer Day”;

acknowledges the urgent need to eliminate barriers to consistent and reliable access to cancer screening programs, early detection initiatives, and quality cancer care for all racial and ethnic groups;

acknowledges that structural and systemic racism and discrimination are fundamental drivers in the Nation’s pressing and persistent racial and ethnic cancer care disparities and inequities;

recognizes the need for greater public awareness campaigns to educate those most affected by racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in cancer care about the importance of cancer screening and early detection across cancers with effective screening options, and how those services can be accessed;

commends the Alliance for Cancer Care Equity (ACCE) for its commitment to support policies, promote practices, and create systems that prioritize the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities and inequities across all cancers;

encourages greater collaboration between health care practices and community-based organizations serving and representing communities of color to provide consistent and comprehensive cancer care and support services;

acknowledges the importance of patient navigation services in reducing racial and ethnic cancer care disparities and inequities by removing barriers to care by guiding patients through complex health care systems;

recognizes the importance of including health equity and community-based organizations, and patient advocacy groups in the design, promotion, recruitment, implementation, and analysis of clinical trials;

supports strengthening existing and expanding new efforts to reduce racial and ethnic cancer care inequities and disparities to close the persistent and pervasive care gap for cancer because everyone, regardless of racial and ethnic background, should have access to quality cancer care; and

urges a greater commitment to dismantling structural and systemic racism and discrimination in both the United States health system and society at large that create, sustain, and exacerbate persistent and costly cancer care disparities and inequities in order to achieve racial and ethnic cancer care equity.