2019
Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion on Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Cancer Care
Mahal A, Chavez J, Yang D, Kim D, Cole A, Hu J, Trinh Q, Yu J, Nguyen P, Mahal B. Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion on Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Cancer Care. American Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2019, 43: 163-167. PMID: 31904711, DOI: 10.1097/coc.0000000000000588.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAffordable Care ActAffordable Care Act implementationMedicaid expansionUninsured rateCare ActInsurance coverageInsurance coverage gapsMultivariate logistic regressionCoverage gapSocioeconomic disparitiesCare objectivesSociodemographic disparitiesRacial disparitiesLow-incomeNonelderly adultsLogistic regressionMedicaidBlack patientsDisparitiesEarly impactInsurancePotential benefitsPatientsCancerAffordability
2017
Racial disparities in prostate cancer outcome among prostate-specific antigen screening eligible populations in the United States.
Mahal B, Chen Y, Muralidhar V, Mahal A, Choueiri T, Hoffman K, Hu J, Sweeney C, Beard C, Martin N, Feng F, Kim S, Yu J, Trinh Q, Nguyen P. Racial disparities in prostate cancer outcome among prostate-specific antigen screening eligible populations in the United States. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2017, 35: 18-18. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2017.35.6_suppl.18.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchProstate cancer-specific mortalityProstate-specific antigenRisk of prostate cancer-specific mortalityProstate-specific antigen screeningProstate cancer outcomesUnited States Preventive Services Task ForceBlack raceMetastatic diseaseCancer outcomesRate of metastatic diseaseCancer-specific mortalityStage of presentationRisk of poor outcomesPreventive Services Task ForceScreening-eligible ageMultivariate logistic regressionEligible populationNon-black menProstate-specificSEER databaseProstate cancerBlack menPoor outcomeRisk regressionBlack patients