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Racial disparities persist in U.S. cancer treatment
From Reuters:
U.S. blacks continue to get inferior cancer treatment compared to whites, researchers said on Monday in a study showing that disparities first documented in the early 1990s persist despite efforts to erase them.
Black patients were consistently less likely than whites to receive the recommended types of treatment, the study found, and the problem was just as bad in 2002 as in 1992.
The full study can be found in the journal Cancer.
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Posted by: David Porter on January 08, 2008
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Category: Cancer; Cancer Treatment; Health Disparities
Disparities in Seeking Cancer Treatment
From NYTimes.com:
The study looked at more than 125,000 people with colorectal cancer and more than 160,000 people with lung cancer over a three-year period. For both kinds of cancers, the researchers found, urban patients were more likely to seek treatment for the first time when they were in advanced stages of the disease.
This was true even though those cancer patients who lived in the country tended to be considerably poorer — and, in the case of the colorectal cancer patients, older — than those in the city. And people who live in cities are more likely to be near a broader range of medical services.
You can find the study at the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
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Posted by: David Porter on November 21, 2007
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Category: Cancer Treatment; Colorectal Cancer; Disparities; Health Disparities; Lung Cancer