Lena Winestone, MD

My research explores racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic outcome disparities for patients with leukemia. I study access to care across the continuum of pediatric cancer from diagnosis and clinical trial enrollment through treatment and relapse to salvage therapies. My research has shown that financial hardship is common at diagnosis and increases over the course of therapy. We are working on interventions to address this hardship. My ongoing work investigates access to highly specialized and complex therapies such as stem cell transplant, chimeric antigen receptor T cells, and MIBG therapy.