Study finds decrease in racial disparity and increase in survival rates in metastatic breast cancer patients due to Medicaid expansion

 

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/949291

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 News Release 8-Apr-2022
Findings from study led by Susan G. Komen scholars published in JAMA Oncology
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Susan G. Komen

 

A new study led by Susan G. Komen® Scholars indicates that patients diagnosed with de novo stage 4 breast cancer – also called metastatic breast cancer– had improved survival rates and decreased mortality rates when those patients had access to care. De novo means the breast cancer was stage 4 at the time of diagnosis and had already spread to distant parts of the body.

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