BACKGROUND The single‐payer universal health care system in Ontario, Canada creates
a setting with reduced socioeconomic barriers to treatment. Herein, the authors sought to …

Background Disparities based on socioeconomic factors such as race, ethnicity, marital
status, and insurance status are associated with pancreatic cancer resection, but these …

Importance Socioeconomic variables including sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, and
insurance status are associated with survival in pancreatic cancer. It remains unknown …

Objective: To assess the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on the patterns of care and
outcomes of patients with pancreatic cancer. Materials & methods: Surveillance …

Background Pancreatectomy is a necessary component of curative intent therapy for
pancreatic cancer, and patients living in nonmetropolitan areas may face barriers to …

Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate racial and socioeconomic disparities for
patients with pancreatic cancer across different facility types. Methods The National Cancer …

Background The impact of rurality on outcome for patients who had resected pancreatic
ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is unclear. We hypothesize that poor outcomes for rural …

Background Survival of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PA) is very poor.
Resection status is highly associated with prognosis but only 15%–20% are resectable. The …

Background The aim of this study was to evaluate health disparities in the outcomes of
patients with resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Methods We retrospectively analyzed …

Background Prior literature shows demographic differences in patients surgically treated for
pancreatic cancer (PC). We hypothesized that socioeconomic disparities also exist across …