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Lack of access to chemotherapy for colon cancer: multiplicative disadvantage of being extremely poor, inadequately insured and African American
BACKGROUND: Despite evidence of chemotherapy’s ability to cure or comfort those with colon cancer, nearly half of such Americans do not receive it. African Americans (AA) seem particularly disadvantaged. An ethnicity by poverty by health insurance interaction was hypothesized such that the multiplic...
Autores principales: | Gorey, Kevin M, Haji-Jama, Sundus, Bartfay, Emma, Luginaah, Isaac N, Wright, Frances C, Kanjeekal, Sindu M |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973249/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24655931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-133 |
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