Treatment Disparities Partially Mediate Socioeconomic- and Race/Ethnicity-Based Survival Disparities in Stage I-II Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Douglas S SwordsTimothy E NewhookChing-Wei D TzengNader N MassarwehYun Shin ChunSunyoung LeeAhmed O KasebMark GhobrialJean-Nicolas VautheyHop S Tran Cao

Published in: Annals of surgical oncology (2023)

SES-based disparities in use of procedural interventions mediate a large proportion of survival disparities, particularly among Black and Hispanic patients. Initiatives aimed at attenuating these treatment disparities should be pursued.

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