Abstract:Background: Lack of insurance has been identified as a key barrier to timely adjuvant chemotherapy, but this evidence may not be generalizable to public hospitals, where care is provided regardless of insurance status. Therefore, we aimed to assess whether insurance status is associated with delayed adjuvant chemotherapy among underserved women with stages I-III breast cancer treated at an urban public hospital.
Methods: We used data from the JPS Center for Cancer Care institutional registry (ac… Show more
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