Rectal Cancer

Research on rectal cancer reported by scientists at University of Michigan

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, July 10th, 2008

" Black patients with rectal cancer are considerably less likely than white patients to receive adjuvant therapy. We examined the hypothesis that the lower treatment rate for blacks is due to underreferral to medical and radiation oncologists," scientists writing in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute report.

" We used 1992-1999 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare data to identify elderly (>= 66 years of age) patients who had been hospitalized for resection of stage II or III rectal cancer (n = 2716). We used chi(2) tests to examine associations between race and 1) consultation with an oncologist and 2) receipt of adjuvant therapy. We...

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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2008-07-10)

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