{"id":20496,"date":"2010-06-21T21:32:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T21:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cancer_study_sees_cultural_factors_in_racial_disparities\/"},"modified":"2010-06-21T21:32:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T21:32:21","slug":"cancer_study_sees_cultural_factors_in_racial_disparities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20496","title":{"rendered":"Cancer study sees cultural factors in racial disparities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a high likelihood of death, black patients are much less inclined to have surgery for early stage lung cancer than whites, often because of a communication gulf between them and their doctors, scientists at UNC-Chapel Hill report today.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, UNC-CH researchers surveyed nearly 400 patients newly diagnosed with lung cancer to determine what factors influenced their treatment decisions.<\/p>\n<p>For black patients, who have long had worse outcomes for lung cancer than whites, just 55 percent chose surgery to remove the tumor &#8211; the only lifesaving option when cancer is diagnosed early. Sixty-six percent of white patients chose surgery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2010\/06\/16\/535128\/cancer-study-sees-cultural-factors.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a high likelihood of death, black patients are much less inclined to have surgery for early stage lung cancer than whites, often because of a communication gulf between them and their doctors, scientists at UNC-Chapel Hill report today. In<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20496\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}