Black patients were 33 percent less likely to followup the negative results of their lung cancer screening, according to a meta-analysis of seven studies. This gap persisted for all stages of lung cancer.
See the abstract of the scientific paper “Racial Differences in Adherence to Lung Cancer Screening Follow-up: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis” by Yukiko Kunitomo et al.
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