Disparities Persist in Cancer Care
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SUNDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Not every cancer patient is reaping the benefits of advances in medical care, new research shows.
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Much of the racial and ethnic differences in the care given to patients hospitalized with a heart attack can be explained by the quality of the hospital to which patients
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Black women with uterine cancer are more likely to die than white women, a new report suggests.
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Black women with early-stage breast cancer have lower survival rates than their white counterparts even after taking into account variables such as tumor size and socioeconomic differences, researchers said.
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Women from more deprived backgrounds have a lower breast cancer survival rate, research suggests.
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African-American women in the US are far less likely to undergo breast reconstruction following mastectomy than white women, regardless of socioeconomic factors, new research indicates.
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Health statistics show that once diagnosed with cancer, American Indians have a lower five-year survival rate than any other group in the country.
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Close relatives of cancer patients are often at substantially higher risk than the population at large of developing cancer themselves, a study of 32,000 cancer patients over nearly 50 years has revealed.
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TUESDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- The fear that the new Medicare drug plan would limit access to medicines hasn't come true, as least as far as cancer treatment is concerned, a new report finds.
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The death rate from breast cancer  continues to drop steadily by about 2 percent a year, but black  women are not seeing the same benefits as whites, the American  Cancer Society said on Tuesday.
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Urinary, bowel, and sexual problems arising from surgery or external radiation treatment for localized prostate cancer persist for at least five years, a new study from the National Cancer Institute shows.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDay News) -- &quot;Chemo brain,&quot; characterized by chronic problems with memory and attention, afflicts a sizeable minority of cancer survivors.
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Better detection and treatment are helping to reduce death from breast cancer in America, but poor, rural and minority women - especially Native Americans - face barriers that keep them from taking advantage of cancer screenings that could potentially
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TUESDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Even though U.S. Medicare has expanded coverage for colon cancer screening, blacks and Hispanics are not benefiting as much as whites, a new study shows.
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NEW YORK  - In the United States, rates of invasive cervical cancer declined between 1998 and 2002, although significant racial, ethnic, and geographic differences persisted, according to pre-vaccine surveillance data covering 87 percent the population of women.
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NEW YORK  - African-American women in the  US are far less likely to undergo breast reconstruction  following mastectomy than white women, regardless of  socioeconomic factors, new research indicates.
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MONDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- People who either have no health insurance or rely on Medicaid are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancers than people who have private health insurance, researchers from the American Cancer Society report.