Disparities in Breast Cancer Survival by Socioeconomic Status Despite Medicare and Medicaid Insurance.

ABSTRACT: Policy Points Patients with low socioeconomic status (SES) experience poorer survival rates after diagnosis of breast cancer, even when enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid. Most of the difference in survival is due to more advanced cancer on presentation and the general poor health of lower SES patients, while only a very small fraction of the SES disparity is due to differences in cancer treatment. Even when comparing only low- versus not-low-SES whites (without confounding by race) the survival disparity between disparate white SES populations is very large and is associated with lower use of preventive care, despite having insurance.

Context

Disparities in breast cancer survival by socioeconomic status (SES) exist despite the "safety net" programs Medicare and Medicaid. What is les

SUBMITTER: Silber JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6287075 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature