Racial Disparities in the Management of Locoregional Colorectal Cancer

AUTHORS

Hao S , Parikh AA , Snyder RA , . Surgical oncology clinics of North America. 2021 10 19; 31(1). 65-79

PMID: 34776065 [PubMed].

ABSTRACT

Racial disparities pervade nearly all aspects of management of locoregional colorectal cancer, including time to treatment, receipt of resection, adequacy of resection, postoperative complications, and receipt of neoadjuvant and adjuvant multimodality therapies. Disparate gaps in treatment translate into enduring effects on survivorship, recurrence, and mortality. Efforts to reduce these gaps in care must be undertaken on a multilevel basis and focus on modifiable factors that underlie racial disparity.

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