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Harold Freeman, Who Helped Remove Barriers to Cancer Treatment, Dies at 93

15 September 2026 at 11:08
He developed a program that became a model for hospitals around the world, making it easier for poor Black patients to navigate an onerous bureaucratic system.

Β© Frances Roberts for The New York Times

Harold Freeman in 2000. Early in his career as a surgeon, he said, he thought he could β€œcut cancer out of Harlem,” but he soon learned that β€œthe disease would not yield to a surgeon’s knife.”
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