The University of California at Irvine in 2021 set up an online portal where women could schedule screening that their healthcare provider ordered or that they requested on their own. In all, more than 22,000 women used the portal. Most likely to self-schedule were Hispanic women and women living in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Most […]
Women living in 3,712 redlined U.S. census-tracts, especially in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, were 24 percent less likely than women living in A (“Best”) areas to meet breast screening targets. Poverty, lack of education and limited English proficiency were among the most significant barriers. See “Historic redlining practices cast a long
Residents of 3,712 redlined U.S. census-tracts, especially in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, were 64 percent less likely than residents living in A (“Best”) areas to meet colorectal cancer screening targets. Poverty, lack of education and limited English proficiency were among the most significant barriers. See “Historic redlining practices cast a long
Women living in 3,712 redlined U.S. census-tracts, especially in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, were 79 percent less likely than women living in A (“Best”) areas to meet cervical cancer screening targets. Poverty, lack of education and limited English proficiency were among the most significant barriers. See “Historic redlining practices cast a
Men diagnosed with early-onset prostate cancer (at age 55 or younger) are more likely to die sooner if they’re Black, don’t have health insurance, and live in lower-income areas with high levels of people who didn’t finish high school. That’s the finding fromn the first study to investigate how socioeconomic status (SES) affects survival in
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Black and Hispanic female survivors of breast cancer experience higher death rates than White women after being diagnosed with a second primary cancer. In a study of nearly 40,000 adult survivors of breast cancer, the risk of death from a second cancer was 12 percent among Black survivors and 8 percent higher among Hispanic survivors
Blacks and Hispanics are about 8 percent less likely to get timely next-generation genetic sequencing of their lung cancer, less because their physician is treating them differently and more because they tend to see physicians or medical practices that don’t do a lot of genetic testing. That’s the conclusion of a new study of about
Less than seven percent of cancer patients in California and Georgia underwent genetic testing within two years of diagnosis, despite guidelines recommending genetic testing in the majority of patients. Allison Kurian, MD (above), of the Stanford University Medical School and her colleagues reviewed the records of nearly 1.4 million patients in California and Georgia diagnosed
Less than seven percent of cancer patients in California and Georgia underwent genetic testing within two years of diagnosis, despite guidelines recommending genetic testing in the majority of patients. Allison Kurian, MD (above), of the Stanford University Medical School and her colleagues reviewed the records of nearly 1.4 million patients in California and Georgia diagnosed
Less than seven percent of cancer patients in California and Georgia underwent genetic testing within two years of diagnosis, despite guidelines recommending genetic testing in the majority of patients. Allison Kurian, MD (above), of the Stanford University Medical School and her colleagues reviewed the records of nearly 1.4 million patients in California and Georgia diagnosed
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