Cancer Screening

Preventive healthcare can overcome barriers of race, socioeconomic status

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, October 22nd, 2004

A new study finds that Medicare beneficiaries who used more preventive and cancer screening services in the 2-year period preceding their first diagnosis of cancer had a lower risk of being diagnosed with late-stage cancer than beneficiaries who used fewer of these services.

The study, published in Health Services Research, included services such as a flu shot, a mammogram, a colonoscopy and a prostate-specific antigen test. The authors, Marian E. Gornick, Paul W. Eggers and Gerald F. Riley, found that, "Black or white, of lower or higher socioeconomic status, [those] who used more of the available preventive services were less likely to have cancer diagnosed at...

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