Sociologists Have Found New Challenges In Cancer Treatment

Sociologists Have Found New Challenges In Cancer Treatment.
Money problems can baulk women from getting recommended bust cancer treatments, a new study suggests Dec 2013. Researchers analyzed details from more than 1300 women in the Seattle-Puget Sound scope who were diagnosed with breast cancer between 2004 and 2011. The purpose was to see if their care met US National Comprehensive Cancer Network therapy guidelines.

Women who had a break in their health insurance coverage were 3,5 times more able than those with uninterrupted coverage to not receive the recommended care, the findings showed. Compared to patients with an annual kindred income of more than $90000, those with an annual family income of less than $50000 were more than twice as odds-on to not receive recommended radiation therapy. In addition, the investigators found that lower-income women were nearly five times more promising to not receive recommended chemotherapy and nearly four times more indubitably to not receive recommended endocrine therapy.