Poorer patients in US need greater access to cancer screening services
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
People in the US with no health insurance and those insured by Medicaid are more likely than those with commercial insurance to have cancer diagnosed at a late stage and efforts to improve access to cancer screening services are needed for these groups, US researchers report. Dr Richard Roetzheim of the University of South Florida and colleagues also found that race can affect the odds of a late-stage cancer diagnosis.