Data Demonstrating a Lack of Black and White Parity in Breast Cancer Mortality Following Medicaid Expansion: Are the Data Granular Enough to Support This?

JCO Glob Oncol

Quyen D. Chu, MD, MBA, Department of Surgery, LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, Shreveport, LA; John F. Gibbs, MD, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, NJ; John M. Lyons, MD, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center at Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Tingting Li, MPH; Mei-Chin Hsieh, PhD; Yong Yi, PhD; and Xiao-Cheng Wu, MD, MPH, Louisiana Tumor Registry & Epidemiology and School of Public Health at LSU Health Sciences-New Orleans, New Orleans, LA.

Published: February 2021

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