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Breast cancer patients in U.S. territories receive lower quality care
Older women with breast cancer who live in United States territories are less likely than their peers in the continental U.S. to receive recommended care, a study suggests.
“These findings are particularly relevant now, when we are considering how to best help the communities in territories that have been ravaged by hurricanes, and how to rebuild the healthcare infrastructure,” Dr. Cary Gross of Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut told Reuters Health in an email.
“We need to make it even better than it was - because even before the hurricanes, the quality of care in the territories was not equitable. We need to do better,” said Gross, who is the senior author of the study.
Source: Reuters