No insurance often means late cancer diagnosis


	No insurance often means late cancer diagnosis

masbury

2-17-2008 7:47 PM

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Diminished chance of survival

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The study’s authors speculated that the disparity might be caused by a lack of health literacy and an inadequate supply of providers in minority communities.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/health/18cancer.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1203295210-Sf37MbKgOhMBcxzhF40Xwg">The widest disparities were noted in cancers that could be detected early through standard screening or assessment of symptoms, like <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Breast cancer." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/breast-cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">breast cancer</A>, lung cancer, <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Colon Cancer." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/colon-cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">colon cancer</A> and <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Melanoma." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/melanoma/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">melanoma</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/health/18cancer.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1203295210-Sf37MbKgOhMBcxzhF40Xwg">When comparing blacks  to whites, the disparities in late-stage diagnosis were statistically significant for 10 of the 12 cancers.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C4D4E977-5D16-450F-B4B6-B6B3D2B85313/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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