{"id":39790,"date":"2015-02-02T15:42:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39790"},"modified":"2015-02-03T02:08:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T02:08:50","slug":"evidence-based-care-eliminates-racial-disparity-in-colon-cancer-survival-rates-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39790","title":{"rendered":"Evidence-based care eliminates racial disparity in colon cancer survival rates, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evidence-based care eliminates racial disparity in colon cancer survival rates, study finds<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Stanford Medicine News Center<\/a>
\n2015-01-26<\/p>\n

Lisa Marie Potter<\/strong>
\nOffice of Communication & Public Affairs<\/p>\n

A new study<\/a> finds that equitable delivery of evidence-based care eliminates the racial disparity in colon-cancer survival rates.<\/em><\/p>\n

For the past two decades, the National Cancer Institute<\/a> has documented a persistent racial disparity in colon cancer<\/a> survival rates in the United States.<\/p>\n

African-American patients have consistently had lower survival rates when compared with white patients, despite a nationwide decline in colon cancer deaths overall.<\/p>\n

Now, a study<\/a> by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine<\/a> shows that more equitable delivery of evidence-based care can close this gap. Furthermore, the investigators found that evidence-based care was delivered at higher rates within integrated health-care organizations \u2014 those in which one organization provides all the patient\u2019s health-care services, hospital care and insurance. The study reports that five-year death rates were lower for all colon cancer patients treated in an integrated health-care system, and the differences in survival by race were eliminated.<\/p>\n

The study\u2019s findings, published online Jan. 26 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology<\/em><\/a>, support the idea that providing equitable, high-quality, evidence-based care is a powerful tool in eliminating cancer-treatment disparities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHistorically, we\u2019ve taken less than a critical eye on our own health-care system in terms of how we can take the lead in addressing disparities,\u201d said lead author Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH, assistant professor of surgery<\/a>. \u201cThe big takeaway in this paper is that it\u2019s treatment, not necessarily patient factors, but following evidence-based guidelines that gives all patients the best chance for survival. Our work also suggests a real opportunity to equalize these racial differences.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire press release here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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