New Findings on Lung Cancer from COMSATS University Islamabad Summarized (Macroeconomic environment and insurance-mortality relationship: An analysis of gender-based disparity among non-elderly adult patients of melanoma and lung cancer)

2020 FEB 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Oncology - Lung Cancer is the subject of a report. According to news originating from Islamabad, Pakistan, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Cancer patients exhibit disparity in mortality risks across demographic divisions as well as insurance groups. The effects of macroeconomic environment also vary for such strata.”

Financial support for this research came from National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from COMSATS University Islamabad, “This study analyses the gaps between mortality risks for male and female cancer patients with and without insurance and examines how such gaps transform over time with macroeconomic shifts. Demographic, clinical and treatment records of 45,750 melanoma and 91,157 lung cancer patients diagnosed in 2007-2009 and 2011-2013 were extracted from Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database. Kaplan-Meier test was applied to ascertain survival probability of each insurance group, while Cox proportional hazard model was used to assess relative mortality risk for Medicaid and uninsured patients, for the whole data as well as separately for both time periods and genders. Both the hazard ratios and change thereof over time are greater for female patients without insurance, than for male patients. More than any insurance-gender subgroup, uninsured female patients of melanoma have much increased hazard ratios, from 1.41 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.04-1.92] to 2.22 [95% CI, 1.67-2.94].”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Despite diagnostic improvements and technology advancements, the adverse effects of macroeconomic crisis are associated with increased relative mortality risks for cancer patients without insurance, more for women than men.”

For more information on this research see: Macroeconomic environment and insurance-mortality relationship: An analysis of gender-based disparity among non-elderly adult patients of melanoma and lung cancer. European Journal of Cancer Care, 2020;():e13229. European Journal of Cancer Care can be contacted at: Blackwell Publishing Inc, 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; European Journal of Cancer Care - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2354)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from S.M. Adnan, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan. Additional authors for this research include H. Adnan, K. Deng, C. Yang, Y. Hou, V.R. Ngo Nkondjock and K. Li.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13229. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher’s contact information for the European Journal of Cancer Care is: Blackwell Publishing Inc, 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA.

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