Examining racial disparities in colon cancer clinical delay in the Colon Cancer Patterns of Care in Chicago study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We explored a potential racial disparity in clinical delay among non-Hispanic (nH) Black and White colon cancer patients and examined factors that might account for the observed disparity.

Methods

Patients aged 30-79 years with a newly diagnosed colon cancer from 2010 to 2014 (n = 386) were recruited from a diverse sample of nine public, private, and academic hospitals in and around Chicago. Prolonged clinical delay was defined as 60 days or more or 90 days or more between medical presentation (symptoms or a screen-detected lesion) and treatment initiation (surgery or chemotherapy). Multivariable logistic regression with model-based standardization was used to estimate the disparity as a difference in prevalence of prolonged delay by race.

Results

Prevalence o

SUBMITTER: Jones LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5728690 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature