Disparities in gynecological malignancies

S Chatterjee, D Gupta, TA Caputo, K Holcomb - Frontiers in oncology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Objectives Health disparities and inequalities in access to care among different
socioeconomic, ethnic, and racial groups have been well documented in the US healthcare …

Gynecologic cancer disparities: a report from the Health Disparities Taskforce of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology

Y Collins, K Holcomb, E Chapman-Davis… - Gynecologic …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objectives To review the extent of health disparities in gynecologic cancer care and
outcomes and to propose recommendations to help counteract the disparities. Methods We …

Disparities in gynecologic cancer incidence, treatment, and survival: a narrative review of outcomes among black and white women in the United States

M Towner, JJ Kim, MA Simon, D Matei… - International Journal of …, 2022 - ijgc.bmj.com
For patients diagnosed with ovarian, uterine, or cervical cancer, race impacts expected
outcome, with black women suffering worse survival than white women for all three …

Looking at cancer health disparities in gynecologic oncology in 2020

K Clair, RE Bristow - Current Opinion in Obstetrics and …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
In this review, we discuss structural barriers contributing to racial inequities, the role of
Medicaid payer status and receipt of quality cancer care, gender, and racial workforce …

Racial and ethnic disparities over time in the treatment and mortality of women with gynecological malignancies

JA Rauh-Hain, A Melamed, D Schaps, AJ Bregar… - Gynecologic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective To examine temporal trends in treatment and survival among black, Asian,
Hispanic, and white women diagnosed with endometrial, ovarian, cervical, and vulvar …

Racial disparities in blacks with gynecologic cancers

J Farley, JI Risinger, GS Rose, GL Maxwell - Cancer, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Black women have a lower incidence of gynecologic cancers but they have a higher
mortality associated with their disease. The etiology of the racial disparity in outcome among …

Health care disparities in hysterectomy for gynecologic cancers: data from the 2012 National Inpatient Sample

KM Esselen, A Vitonis, J Einarsson… - Obstetrics & …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: To examine hysterectomies in the United States performed for gynecologic
malignancies and identify factors associated with the use of minimally invasive techniques …

A contemporary framework of health equity applied to gynecologic cancer care: a Society of Gynecologic Oncology evidenced-based review

SM Temkin, BJ Rimel, AS Bruegl, CC Gunderson… - Gynecologic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Health disparities are defined as the preventable difference in the burden of disease, injury,
and violence, or opportunity to achieve optimal health that socially disadvantaged …

Race disparities between black and white women in the incidence, treatment, and prognosis of endometrial cancer

JE Allard, GL Maxwell - Cancer control, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Uterine cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in the United
States, with an estimated 40,100 new cases and 7,470 deaths occurring in 2008. Although …

Clinical characteristics associated with racial disparities in endometrial cancer outcomes: a surveillance, epidemiology and end results analysis

S Sud, J Holmes, M Eblan, R Chen, E Jones - Gynecologic oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives Racial disparities exist for endometrial cancer. We examined patterns of care and
factors associated with poor outcomes for Black women with endometrial cancer. Methods …