Scientific publications found in the American Cancer Society's journals, Cancer and CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

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General discussion on health disparities

• Elimination of Cancer Disparities via Organizational Transformation and Community Driven Approaches (January/February 2011)
• Cancer, Culture, and Health Disparities (January/February 2010)
• News & Views: Black-White Mortality Disparities Increasing for Some Cancers (March/April 2009)
• News & Views: Copays Deter Women from Getting Mammograms (May/June 2008)
• Association of Insurance with Cancer Care Utilization and Outcomes (January/February 2008)
• CancerScope: Reaching out to underserved populations: Highlights from programs to improve cancer disparities (1 Jan 2011)

Colorectal cancer

• Racial disparities in colorectal cancer survival: To what extent are racial disparities explained by differences in treatment, tumor characteristics, or hospital characteristics? (1 Oct 2010)
• Insurance status and survival disparities among nonelderly rectal cancer patients in the National Cancer Data Base (1 Sep 2010)
• Neighborhood socioeconomic status and behavioral pathways to risks of colon and rectal cancer in women (1 Sep 2010)
• A black-white comparison of the quality of stage-specific colon cancer treatment (1 Feb 2010)

Breast and cervical cancer

• Disparities in medical care among commercially insured patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer: Opportunities for intervention (1 Jan 2010)
• Age/race differences in HER2 testing and in incidence rates for breast cancer triple subtypes: A population-based study and first report (1 Jun 2010)
• Racial disparities in the use of radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery: A national Medicare study (1 Feb 2010)
• Diagnostic and therapeutic delays among a multiethnic sample of breast and cervical cancer survivors (1 Jul 2010)
• Cervical cancer incidence among 6 Asian ethnic groups in the United States, 1996 through 2004 (15 Feb 2010)

Gastric cancer

• Variations in gastric cancer care: A trend beyond racial disparities (15 Jan 2010)

Head and neck cancer

• The impact of health insurance status on the survival of patients with head and neck cancer (15 Jan 2010)

Lung cancer

• Do racial or socioeconomic disparities exist in lung cancer treatment? (15 May 2010)

Pancreatic cancer

• Are patients of low socioeconomic status receiving suboptimal management for pancreatic adenocarcinoma? (1 Feb 2010)

Prostate cancer

• Quality of end-of-life care in low-income, uninsured men dying of prostate cancer (1 May 2010)
• Prostate cancer treatment for economically disadvantaged men: A comparison of county hospitals and private providers (1 Mar 2010)

Caregiver

• Caregiver symptom burden: The risk of caring for an underserved patient with advanced cancer (1 Mar 2011)

Screening

General

• Cancer Screening in the United States, 2012 (March/April 2012)

Breast cancer

• News & Views: Copays Deter Women from Getting Mammograms (May/June 2008)
• Stage of breast cancer at diagnosis among low-income women with access to mammography (1 Dec 2010)
• The impact of a national program to provide free mammograms to low-income, uninsured women on breast cancer mortality rates (1 Oct 2010)

Colorectal Cancer

• Expanding colorectal cancer screening among minority women (1 Jan 2011)
• A trial of 3 interventions to promote colorectal cancer screening in African Americans (15 Feb 2010)

Health service research

Access

• Association of Insurance with Cancer Care Utilization and Outcomes (January/February 2008)
• The impact of a national program to provide free mammograms to low-income, uninsured women on breast cancer mortality rates (1 Oct 2010)

Policy

• Policy implications of early onset breast cancer among Mexican-origin women (15 Jan 2011)

Patient navigation

• Patient Navigation: An Update on the State of the Science (July/August 2011)
• Supplement: National Patient Navigation Leadership Summit (NPNLS): Measuring the Impact and Potential of Patient Navigation, Supplement to Cancer (August 2011). Volume 117, Issue S15, Pages i–ii, 3535–3623

Statistics

• Cancer Statistics, 2012 (January/February 2012)
• ACS Facts and Figures