Unlimited Access to Care: Effect on Racial Disparity and Prognostic Factors in Lung Cancer

2006110 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Charles R. Mulligan

Amir D. Meram · Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Courtney D. Proctor · Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Hongyu Wu

Kangmin Zhu

Aizen J. Marrogi · Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Abstract

No racial disparities in survival when access to medical care is universal. Male gender, incomplete resection, and advanced stage are significant predictors of poor outcome in lung cancer.

Topics & Keywords

Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Global Cancer Incidence and Screening

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-beingNo poverty

Publication Details

Published in: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Volume 15, Issue 1, pp. 25-31

DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-05-0537

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