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Treatment Patterns For Cancer In Western Australia: Does Being Indigenous Make A Difference?, Sonja E. Hall, Caroline E. Bulsara, Max K. Bulsara, Timothy G. Leahy, Margaret R. Culbong, Delia Hendrie, C D'Arcy J. Holman
Treatment Patterns For Cancer In Western Australia: Does Being Indigenous Make A Difference?, Sonja E. Hall, Caroline E. Bulsara, Max K. Bulsara, Timothy G. Leahy, Margaret R. Culbong, Delia Hendrie, C D'Arcy J. Holman
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
Objective: To examine whether hospital patients with cancer who were identified as Indigenous were as likely to receive surgery for the cancer as non-Indigenous patients. Design, setting and patients: Epidemiological survey of all Western Australian (WA) patients who had a cancer registration in the state-based WA Record Linkage Project that mentioned cancer of the breast (1982–2000) or cancer of the lung or prostate (1982–2001).
Main outcome measures: The likelihoods of receiving breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy for breast cancer, lung surgery for lung cancer, or radical or non-radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer were compared between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations using …