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Stage At Diagnosis And Cancer Survival For Indigenous Australians In The Northern Territory, John R. Condon, Tony Barnes, Bruce K. Armstrong, Sid Selva-Nayagam, J. Mark Elwood
Stage At Diagnosis And Cancer Survival For Indigenous Australians In The Northern Territory, John R. Condon, Tony Barnes, Bruce K. Armstrong, Sid Selva-Nayagam, J. Mark Elwood
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
Objective: To investigate whether Indigenous Australians with cancer have more advanced disease at diagnosis than other Australians, and whether late diagnosis explains lower Indigenous cancer survival rates. Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Setting and participants: Indigenous and non-Indigenous people diagnosed with cancers of the colon and rectum, lung, breast or cervix and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the Northern Territory of Australia in 1991–2000. Main outcome measures: SEER summary stage of cancer at diagnosis (local, regional or distant spread), cause-specific cancer survival rates and relative risk of cancer death.
Results: Diagnosis with advanced disease (regional or distant spread) was more common for Indigenous …