Racial Disparities in Palliative Care for Prostate Cancer

Abstract

There is increased interest in management of patients at end of life and effective methods for palliating symptoms are increasingly available. There has been very little research on the use of palliative treatments. Our team has developed the tools/methods for working with SEER-Medicare. We plan to use analytic approaches and methods to explore racial disparities in the use of palliative treatment for prostate cancer. The long-term aim of this study is to have a better understanding of the racial disparities in the receipt of proven or widely accepted palliative treatments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA594511

Entities

People

  • Alfred I. Neugut

Organizations

  • Columbia University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • African Americans
  • Biomedical Research
  • Cancer
  • Compression
  • Databases
  • Disparities
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Health Services
  • Medicare
  • Neoplasms
  • New York
  • Patient Care
  • Prostate
  • Prostate Cancer
  • Spinal Cord
  • Therapy

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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