Cancer disparities in the context of medicaid insurance: A comparison of survival for acute myeloid leukemia and hodgkin's lymphoma by medicaid enrollment

Oncologist

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1082-1091

  Yung, Rachel L ^a   Chen, Kun ^a   Abel, Gregory A ^a   Gesten, Foster C ^b   Roohan, Patrick J ^b   Boscoe, Francis P ^b   Sinclair, Amber H ^b   Schymura, Maria J ^b   Schrag, Deborah ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukemia; Health care disparities; Hodgkin's disease; Medicaid; Neoplasms; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAID; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POVERTY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; INSURANCE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; POVERTY; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052237125     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2011-0126     Document Type: Article

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