Publications by authors named "Lovette E Azap"
Background: Socioeconomic status can often dictate access to timely surgical care and postoperative outcomes. We sought to analyze the impact of county-level poverty duration on hepatopancreaticobiliary cancer outcomes.
Methods: Patients diagnosed with hepatopancreaticobiliary cancer were identified from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare 2010 to 2015 database linked with county-level poverty from the American Community Survey and the US Department of Agriculture between 1980 to 2010.
Background: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) transformed the US healthcare system, expanding healthcare insurance coverage. However, its impact on rare malignancies that lack an established screening strategy such as intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) remains ill-defined.
Methods: Patients diagnosed with ICC were identified from the National Cancer Database and divided relative to ACA implementation.