Racial and Ethnic Disparities Along the Treatment Cascade Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries With Metastatic Breast, Colorectal, Lung, and Prostate Cancers
Care delivery and policy interventions intended to narrow racial and ethnic overall survival disparities in Medicare patients with metastatic cancer should target disparities in not receiving first-line systemic therapy and address the unique needs of beneficiaries with low-income subsidy status or dual eligibility.
Authors
- Carmen E. Guerra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6349-9142)
- Ana Maria Aparicio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0900-0923)
- Nirosha D. Perera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-9579)
- Sharon Hermes Giordano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8700-2767)
- Jiangong Niu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5643-5490)
- John Kent Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2490-4453)
- William J. Chapin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9616-8462)
- Kaiping Liao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5908-1668)
- Debanjan Pain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4811-4547)
- Jianjun Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7872-3477)
- Jenny Xiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4390-7641)
- Rebecca A. Snyder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4355-2185)
- Jalpa A. Doshi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3263-4337)
- Pengxiang Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0795-6684)
- Meng Li
Institutions
- Tufts Medical Center (US)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Published
- 2025-08-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jco-24-02440
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.26