Previous studies using data from the early 2000s demonstrated that patients who were
uninsured were more likely to present with late‐stage disease and had worse short‐term …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine the association of insurance status with
disease stage at presentation, treatment, and survival among the top 10 most deadly …

Prior studies have demonstrated that individuals without health insurance are less likely to
have a usual source of health care and receive preventive services including cancer …

To examine the impact of health insurance status on tumor stage at diagnosis, treatment
rendered, and overall survival, we identified 52,566 breast cancer patients and 34,316 …

Importance There have been substantial improvements in the early detection, treatment, and
survival from cancer in the United States, but it is not clear to what extent patients with …

Previous studies found that uninsured and Medicaid insured cancer patients have poorer
outcomes than cancer patients with private insurance. We examined the association …

BACKGROUND Adolescents and young adults with cancer have inferior survival outcomes
compared with younger pediatric patients and older adult patients. Lack of insurance may …

Advances in the prevention, early detection, and treatment of cancer have resulted in an
almost 14% decrease in the death rates from all cancers combined from 1991 to 2004 in the …

BACKGROUND In the United States, an estimated 48 million individuals live without health
insurance. The purpose of the current study was to explore the Variation in insurance status …

Purpose Previous studies on insurance and cancer stage at diagnosis are limited by either
insufficient power for less common cancers or nonpopulation-based samples. We aimed to …