Hospital Factors and Racial Disparities in Mortality After Surgery for Breast and Colon Cancer | Zendy

Tara M. Breslin | Zendy; Arden M. Morris | Zendy; Niya Gu | Zendy; Sandra L. Wong | Zendy; Emily Finlayson | Zendy; Mousumi Banerjee | Zendy; John D. Birkmeyer | Zendy

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Hospital Factors and Racial Disparities in Mortality After Surgery for Breast and Colon Cancer

Author(s) -

Tara M. Breslin,

Arden M. Morris,

Niya Gu,

Sandra L. Wong,

Emily Finlayson,

Mousumi Banerjee,

John D. Birkmeyer

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

journal of clinical oncology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 10.482

H-Index - 548

eISSN - 1527-7755

pISSN - 0732-183X

DOI - 10.1200/jco.2008.20.8546

Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , colorectal cancer , hazard ratio , epidemiology , cancer , mortality rate , breast conserving surgery , proportional hazards model , oncology , mastectomy , confidence interval

Black patients have worse prognoses than whites with breast or colorectal cancer. Mechanisms underlying such disparities have not been fully explored. We examined the role of hospital factors in racial differences in late mortality after surgery for breast or colon cancer.

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