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Navigator-assisted hypofractionation (NAVAH) to address radiation therapy access disparities facing African-Americans with breast cancer
BACKGROUND: African-Americans have the highest overall cancer death rate and shortest survival time of any racial or ethnic group in the United States. The most common cancer studied in African-American radiation therapy (RT) access disparities research is breast cancer. The goal of this study is to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36186700 http://dx.doi.org/10.5603/RPOR.a2022.0064 |
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author | McClelland, Shearwood Harris, Eleanor E. Spratt, Daniel E. Cheatham, Chesley Sun, Yilun Oliver, Alexandria L. Jaboin, Jerry J. Jagsi, Reshma Petereit, Daniel G. |
author_facet | McClelland, Shearwood Harris, Eleanor E. Spratt, Daniel E. Cheatham, Chesley Sun, Yilun Oliver, Alexandria L. Jaboin, Jerry J. Jagsi, Reshma Petereit, Daniel G. |
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description | BACKGROUND: African-Americans have the highest overall cancer death rate and shortest survival time of any racial or ethnic group in the United States. The most common cancer studied in African-American radiation therapy (RT) access disparities research is breast cancer. The goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of patient navigation on RT access for African-American breast cancer patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study is a prospective survey-based evaluation of the impact of patient navigation on access to hypofractionated RT and financial toxicity in African-American breast cancer patients. The impact of patient navigation on RT access will be collated and analyzed from survey results pre-RT versus post-RT as well as for patients with versus without receipt of patient navigation. The validated COST-Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy score will be used to compare hypofractionation versus standard fractionated RT financial toxicity for patients with early-stage breast cancer who have received lumpectomy. CONCLUSION: This is the first study to investigate the impact of patient navigation on reducing RT access disparities facing African-American breast cancer patients. The natural progression of this work will be to expand this model to include additional breast cancer populations most vulnerable to suffering RT access disparities (Native American, Hispanic American, Appalachian) within the United States. |
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spelling | pubmed-95187672022-09-29 Navigator-assisted hypofractionation (NAVAH) to address radiation therapy access disparities facing African-Americans with breast cancer McClelland, Shearwood Harris, Eleanor E. Spratt, Daniel E. Cheatham, Chesley Sun, Yilun Oliver, Alexandria L. Jaboin, Jerry J. Jagsi, Reshma Petereit, Daniel G. Rep Pract Oncol Radiother Letter to the Editor BACKGROUND: African-Americans have the highest overall cancer death rate and shortest survival time of any racial or ethnic group in the United States. The most common cancer studied in African-American radiation therapy (RT) access disparities research is breast cancer. The goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of patient navigation on RT access for African-American breast cancer patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study is a prospective survey-based evaluation of the impact of patient navigation on access to hypofractionated RT and financial toxicity in African-American breast cancer patients. The impact of patient navigation on RT access will be collated and analyzed from survey results pre-RT versus post-RT as well as for patients with versus without receipt of patient navigation. The validated COST-Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy score will be used to compare hypofractionation versus standard fractionated RT financial toxicity for patients with early-stage breast cancer who have received lumpectomy. CONCLUSION: This is the first study to investigate the impact of patient navigation on reducing RT access disparities facing African-American breast cancer patients. The natural progression of this work will be to expand this model to include additional breast cancer populations most vulnerable to suffering RT access disparities (Native American, Hispanic American, Appalachian) within the United States. Via Medica 2022-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9518767/ /pubmed/36186700 http://dx.doi.org/10.5603/RPOR.a2022.0064 Text en © 2022 Greater Poland Cancer Centre https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This article is available in open access under Creative Common Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, allowing to download articles and share them with others as long as they credit the authors and the publisher, but without permission to change them in any way or use them commercially |
spellingShingle | Letter to the Editor McClelland, Shearwood Harris, Eleanor E. Spratt, Daniel E. Cheatham, Chesley Sun, Yilun Oliver, Alexandria L. Jaboin, Jerry J. Jagsi, Reshma Petereit, Daniel G. Navigator-assisted hypofractionation (NAVAH) to address radiation therapy access disparities facing African-Americans with breast cancer |
title | Navigator-assisted hypofractionation (NAVAH) to address radiation therapy access disparities facing African-Americans with breast cancer |
title_full | Navigator-assisted hypofractionation (NAVAH) to address radiation therapy access disparities facing African-Americans with breast cancer |
title_fullStr | Navigator-assisted hypofractionation (NAVAH) to address radiation therapy access disparities facing African-Americans with breast cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Navigator-assisted hypofractionation (NAVAH) to address radiation therapy access disparities facing African-Americans with breast cancer |
title_short | Navigator-assisted hypofractionation (NAVAH) to address radiation therapy access disparities facing African-Americans with breast cancer |
title_sort | navigator-assisted hypofractionation (navah) to address radiation therapy access disparities facing african-americans with breast cancer |
topic | Letter to the Editor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36186700 http://dx.doi.org/10.5603/RPOR.a2022.0064 |
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