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Availability Of Healthcare Resources And Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Stage Of Diagnosis And Mortality Among Blacks And Whites, Swati Sakhuja, Huifeng Yun, Maria Pisu, Tomi Akinyemiju
Availability Of Healthcare Resources And Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Stage Of Diagnosis And Mortality Among Blacks And Whites, Swati Sakhuja, Huifeng Yun, Maria Pisu, Tomi Akinyemiju
Epidemiology and Environmental Health Faculty Publications
Background: The purpose of this study is to examine whether racial disparities in epithelial ovarian cancer stage at diagnosis and survival may be explained by geographic availability of healthcare resources among Blacks and Whites.
Methods: Data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database was used to identify White and Black women ages 40 years and above diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer between 2000 and 2010. Data on county-level availability of healthcare resources was obtained from the Area Resource File. Multi-level regression models, overall and stratified by race and age, were used to examine the associations of health care …