Removal of the financial barrier to health care: Does it impact on prostate cancer at presentation and survival? A comparative study between black and white men in a Veterans Affairs system
UrologyPublished 1 December 1995
Isaac J. Powell, Kendra Schwartz, Maha Hussain
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Data suggest that financial access to care has no apparent influence on the higher proportion of distant disease and poorer survival of African-American patients with prostate cancer compared with American-Caucasian men.
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These data suggest that financial access to care has no apparent influence on the higher proportion of distant disease and poorer survival of African-American patients with prostate cancer compared with American-Caucasian men.
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MedicineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
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