Nancy Keating, MD, MPH, from Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, discusses the current discrepancies in cancer care as a result of certain factors, such as ethnicity and socioeconomics. Speaking from the 2018 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, held in Glasgow, UK, Dr Keating describes the current factors driving these disparities, before revealing the procedures in place to improve the affordability, accessibility and delivery of cancer care to all patients.