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Colon Cancer
New colon cancer study findings recently were reported by G.F. Riey and co-researchers
December 4th, 2008
In this recent report, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To compare the Medicare managed care(MC) and fee-for-service (FFS) sectors on stage at diagnosis and treatment patterns for prostate, female breast, and colorectal cancers, and no examine patterns across MC plans. Data: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare linked data." "Among cases diagnosed at ages 65-79 between 1998 and 2002, we selected all MC enrollees (n = 42,467) and beneficiaries in FFS (n = 82,998) who resided in the same counties. MC and FFS samples were compared using logistic regression, adjusting for demographic, geographic and clinical covariates. The percentage of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-12-04)
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