Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pharmacologic and Non-Pharmacologic Pain Management Among Older Cancer Survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pain is common among cancer survivors and often managed with medication; however, racial-ethnic disparities persist in pain treatment. Given inadequate data on pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain management among minoritized cancer survivors, we investigated these patterns using the SEER-Medicare claims linked database.

Methods

An incident cancer diagnosis cohort (≥ 66 years) was created from 2007 to 2016. The primary outcome was incidence of pain treatment (pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic) within 90 days post-diagnosis. Racial disparities were measured as adjusted incidence ratios for treatment using Poisson regression and adjusted differences in supply days and doses using linear regression, comparing non-Hispanic Black (nHB), Hispanic-Latino (LatinX)

SUBMITTER: Bhattacharyya O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12828668 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature