News that Memphis has the widest survival gap between black and white hit the medical community here hard.
Many Health Issues News that Memphis has the widest survival gap between black and white hit the medical community here hard.
The study's lead researcher, Dr. Kenneth C. Chu of the National Cancer Institute, said that the survival gap between younger women was significant.
In addition, a significant number of black women also receive lower-quality cancer care after diagnosis, although those differences do not explain the survival gap.
One notable finding of the report is that while the introduction of new treatments has improved the outcome for both white and black breast cancer patients since 1991, those improvements have not narrowed the survival gap between the two groups.
Adjustment for tempo effects shows that the dif-ferences in survival conditions between West and East Germany are still considerably higher than expected and that the survival gap between West and East Germany started to close con-siderably later than trends in conventional life expectancy suggest.
"What we really need to do now is to drill down into which of those factors are key, which are most contributing to this survival gap the most, so then we can really work on targeting those areas of disadvantage," O'Connell said.
This has been dubbed the "survival gap".
This breast cancer survival gap hasn't always existed, explains Bijou Hunt, also an epidemiologist and Allgood's colleague at SUHI.
An early identification system for those at higher risk of rejection and death, and data on any differences in treatment protocols, could help narrow the survival gap, he says.
Last month, a Lancet report quantified the survival gap between the richest and the poorest Americans and found that the wealthiest 1percentt live ten to 15 years longer than the poorest 1percentt.
