Racial differences in long-term adjuvant endocrine therapy adherence and mortality among Medicaid-insured breast cancer patients in Texas: Findings from TCR-Medicaid linked data

Racial differences in long-term adjuvant endocrine therapy adherence and mortality among Medicaid-insured breast cancer patients in Texas: Findings from TCR-Medicaid linked data

Abstract Background There are racial/ethnic disparities in breast cancer mortality may be attributed to differences in receipt of adjuvant cancer treatment. Our purpose was to determine whether the mortality disparities could be explained by racial/ethnic differences in long-term adherence to adjuva...

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Main Authors: Albert J. Farias, Wen-Hsing Wu, Xianglin L. Du
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:BMC Cancer
Subjects:
AET
race/ethnicity disparities
adherence
mortality
Medicaid
cancer registry
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-018-5121-z

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