Recent Findings from University of Windsor Provide New Insights into Breast Cancer (Breast Cancer Care in California and Ontario: Primary Care…

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Recent Findings from University of Windsor Provide New Insights into Breast Cancer (Breast Cancer Care in California and Ontario: Primary Care Protections Greatest Among the Most Socioeconomically Vulnerable Women Living in the Most Underserved ...)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Oncology - Breast Cancer. According to news reporting out of Windsor, Canada, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "Better health care among Canada's socioeconomically vulnerable versus America's has not been fully explained. We examined the effects of poverty, health insurance and the supply of primary care physicians on breast cancer care."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Windsor, "We analyzed breast cancer data in Ontario (n=950) and California (n=6300) between 1996 and 2000 and followed until 2014. We obtained socioeconomic data from censuses, oversampling the poor. We obtained data on the supply of physicians, primary care and specialists. The optimal care criterion was being diagnosed early with node negative disease and received breast conserving surgery followed by adjuvant radiation therapy. Women in Ontario received more optimal care in communities well supplied by primary care physicians. They were particularly advantaged in the most disadvantaged places: high poverty neighborhoods (rate ratio=1.65) and communities lacking specialist physicians (rate ratio=1.33). Canadian advantages were explained by better health insurance coverage and greater primary care access. Policy makers ought to ensure that the newly insured are adequately insured. The Medicaid program should be expanded, as intended, across all 50 states."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Strengthening America's system of primary care will probably be the best way to ensure that the Affordable Care Act's full benefits are realized."

For more information on this research see: Breast Cancer Care in California and Ontario: Primary Care Protections Greatest Among the Most Socioeconomically Vulnerable Women Living in the Most Underserved Places. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2017;():2150131916686284. (Sage Publications - www.sagepub.com/; Journal of Primary Care & Community Health - jpc.sagepub.com)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting K.M. Gorey, 1 University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Additional authors for this research include C. Hamm, I.N. Luginaah, G. Zou and E.J Holowaty.

Keywords for this news article include: Canada, Windsor, Ontario, Oncology, Breast Cancer, Women's Health, Health Insurance, North and Central America.