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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Effectiveness of Care: Cancer
| Measure |
Racial Difference[1] |
Ethnic Difference[2] |
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Black |
Asian |
NHOPI |
AI/AN |
>1 Race |
NHB |
Hispanic |
| Screening for Breast Cancer |
| Women (40 and over) who report they had a mammogram within the past 2 years[3] |
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| Breast cancers diagnosed at late stage[4] |
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| Screening for Cervical Cancer |
| Women (18 and over) who report they had a Pap smear within the past 3 years3 |
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| Cervical cancers diagnosed at late stage4 |
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| Screening for Colorectal Cancer |
| Men and women (50 and over) who report they ever had a flexible sigmoidoscopy/colonoscopy3 |
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| Men and women (50 and over) who report they had a fecal occult blood test (FOBT) within the past 2 years3 |
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| Colorectal cancers diagnosed at late stage4 |
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| Cancer Treatment[5] |
| Cancer deaths per 100,000 persons per year for all cancers |
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5 |
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| Cancer deaths per 100,000 persons per year for most common cancers, prostate cancer |
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5 |
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| Cancer deaths per 100,000 persons per year for most common cancers, breast cancer |
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5 |
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| Cancer deaths per 100,000 persons per year for most common cancers, lung cancer |
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5 |
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| Cancer deaths per 100,000 persons per year for most common cancers, colorectal cancer |
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5 |
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| Palliative Care[6] |
| Persons who died of cancer who died in hospice |
6 |
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| Median length of stay for cancer patients who received hospice care |
6 |
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Key to Quality of Health Care Tables
: Selected population and comparison population receive about same quality of health care
: Selected population receives better quality care than the comparison population
: Selected population receives worse quality care than the comparison population
: Data are collected but do not meet criteria for statistical reliability |
[1] Compared with whites.
[2] Compared with non-Hispanic whites.
[3] Source: NHIS, 2000.
[4] Source: SEER, 1998-1999. This source did not collect information for >1 race.
[5] Source: NVSS-M, 2000. This source did not collect information on Asians and NHOPIs separately but in aggregate as Asian or Pacific Islander. This source did not collect information for >1 race.
[6] Source: NHHCS, 2000. Sample size constraints permit black-white comparisons only.
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