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Racial disparities in surgical resection and survival among elderly patients with poor prognosis cancer

BACKGROUND: Reports indicate that blacks have lower survival following the diagnosis of a poor prognosis cancer, compared with whites. We explored the extent to which this disparity is attributable to the underuse of surgery. STUDY DESIGN: Using the SEER-Medicare database we identified 57,364 patien...

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Udgivet i:J Am Coll Surg
Main Authors: Revels, Sha'Shonda L., Banerjee, Mousumi, Yin, Huiying, Sonnenday, Christopher J., Birkmeyer, John D.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: 2012
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4547837/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23195204
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.09.019
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