Black men with prostate cancer receive lower quality surgical care than white men, a study led by investigators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), Nashville, Tenn., has found. The racial differences persist even when controlling for factors such as the year of surgery, age, comorbidities and insurance status. Daniel Barocas, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of Urologic Surgery, is first author of the study published in the Aug. 17 issue of the ...Sunday, 26 August 2012
Racial Disparities in Prostate Cancer Care Revealed in Vanderbilt-Led Study
Black men with prostate cancer receive lower quality surgical care than white men, a study led by investigators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), Nashville, Tenn., has found. The racial differences persist even when controlling for factors such as the year of surgery, age, comorbidities and insurance status. Daniel Barocas, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of Urologic Surgery, is first author of the study published in the Aug. 17 issue of the ...
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