Quality and Location of the Surgical Episode Mediate a Large Proportion of Socioeconomic-Based Survival Disparities in Patients with Resected Stage I-III Colon Cancer.

Douglas S SwordsBrian K BednarskiCraig A MessickMatthew M TillmanGeorge J ChangY Nancy You

Published in: Annals of surgical oncology (2021)

These data suggest that improving the quality of the surgical episode for disadvantaged patients undergoing resection for locoregional colon cancer could decrease SES-based survival disparities by over half.

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