Disparities in cancer care

January 14th 2023

Findings showed that Black patients were 4.3 percentage points less likely to receive any opioid and 3.1 percentage points less likely to receive long-acting opioids near end-of-life compared with White patients.

January 1st 2023

Non-Hispanic Black patients with hormone receptor (HR)–positive/HER2-negative breast cancer were more likely to have worse outcomes vs non-Hispanic White, Asian, and Hispanic patients, even with similar 21-gene recurrence scores.

May 24th 2022

Strategies to combat ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer screening are not limited to the clinic.

July 31st 2021

African American, Asian, and Hispanic patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer displayed superior survival outcomes compared with White patients, indicating that race might be linked with survival in this disease.