Association of Insurance Status and Racial Disparities With the Detection of Early-Stage Breast Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Compared with non-Hispanic white women, racial/ethnic minority women receive a diagnosis of breast cancer at a more advanced stage and have higher morbidity and mortality with breast cancer diagnosis. Access to care with adequate insurance may be associated with earlier diagnosis, expedited treatment, and improved prognosis.

Objective

To examine the extent to which insurance is associated with access to timely breast cancer diagnosis and breast cancer stage differences among a large, diverse population of US patients with breast cancer.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective, cross-sectional population-based study used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program on 177 075 women aged 40 to 64 years who received a diagnosi

SUBMITTER: Ko NY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6990828 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature