Black patients were less likely to receive the most effective treatment for early stage non-small cell lung cancer, surgery to remove a portion of lung, during each of the years from 2004 to 2015 in the United States. However, the utilization of surgery increased over this time for both white and Black patients, with the […]
A national panel of medical experts recommended in October 2020 that most Americans start being screened for colorectal cancer five years earlier than called for in current guidelines — at age 45 instead of 50 — to combat increasing rates of the illness in younger people. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent group
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Hispanic women were significantly more likely to survive breast cancer after lumpectomies or mastectomies than Black or white women during 2004 and 2014. Researchers at Washington University and Duke University analyzed the medical records in the National Cancer Institute database of more 900,000 women treated for breast cancer and found that Hispanic women were about
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The hotspots for breast cancer deaths in Black women from 2000 to 2015 were 119 counties mostly in the Southern region of the country, including clusters in the Mississippi Valley River region, coastal Carolinas and the three Georgia counties of Putnam, Jasper and Morgan clustered in the middle of the state. The 83 hotspots for
Blacks with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer are less likely to receive chemotherapy for their disease compared to white and other racial groups, according to a new study. This type of lung cancer tends to rapidly progress, so current recommendations and practices favor starting treatment as soon as possible after a patient is diagnosed. Researchers
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Black military veterans with prostate cancer that had not spread who had equal access to radiation treatment were not more likely than whites to die from the cancer, according to a new study. In fact, their death rate was significantly lower than the white death rate. Researchers examined the medical records of 31,131 veterans diagnosed
Hispanic women and their healthcare providers agree that medical costs and insurance coverage are obstacles to breast cancer treatment, but the providers don’t recognize that emotional support and trust in the medical care are also important for Hispanic patients, according to a pilot study in Arizona. See abstract of scientific paper “Discordance in Perceptions of
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COVID-19 transmission and mortality disproportionately affects Black, Hispanic, and Native American populations, says gastrotenterologist Sophhie Balzora (above). Colorectal cancer, too, is wrought with disparities in screening, incidence, and mortality rates among these very same populations. As we envision our nation slowly clawing our way out of the deepest threats of the pandemic, we must come back
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Asian American and Pacific Islander men are the most likely, and whites the least likely, to survive five years after a diagnosis of distant (advanced) prostate cancer, according to new data from 2011-2016 released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After the diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer, 42% of Asian Americans and
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Women with inflammatory breast cancer — a rare, highly aggressive form of the disease — are living about twice as long after diagnosis than their counterparts in the mid-to-late 1970s, according to University of Michigan research led by Hannah Abraham (above). But despite overall improvements in survival, the analysis showed an ongoing disparity in life
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