Racial disparities in renal cell carcinoma: a single‐payer healthcare experience
Mafolasire A, Yao X, Nawaf C, Suarez‐Sarmiento A, Chow W, Zhao W, Corley D, Hofmann JN, Purdue M, Adeniran AJ, Shuch B. Racial disparities in renal cell carcinoma: a single‐payer healthcare experience. Cancer Medicine 2016, 5: 2101-2108. PMID: 27228559, PMCID: PMC4884637, DOI: 10.1002/cam4.755.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDisease-specific survivalRenal cell carcinomaBlack patientsIndependent predictorsSurgical treatmentWhite patientsCell carcinomaRacial disparitiesKaiser Permanente Northern California systemWorse disease-specific survivalCox proportion hazard modelAdvanced American Joint CommitteePapillary renal cell carcinomaKaplan-Meier methodProportion hazard modelAmerican Joint CommitteeLarger tumor sizeCase-control studyHealthcare systemSingle-payer healthcare systemSingle healthcare systemSignificant racial disparitiesOverall survivalPatient demographicsDifferent comorbidities