I am a cancer survivor. It feels great to say that 20 years after being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. But as is the experience of many African Americans, my journey was full of challenges — depression, unemployment and eventually, homelessness.
It wasn’t just the physical and mental toll of the disease that made it difficult. My address made it far more burdensome. I live on the South Side, where top-rate inpatient cancer care is inaccessible to many African Americans.
