Sentences with phrase «black patients undergoing»

The cumulative incidence among black patients undergoing ALND was 18 %, compared with 12.2 % for white patients undergoing that procedure.

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Researchers found that patients were less likely to undergo surgery if they were older than 50 years, black, unmarried or located in regions outside the East, among other factors.

Among black kidney failure patients undergoing dialysis, women are much less likely than men to want to receive kidney transplants from living donors, despite more offers from family and friends.

Secondary results of the study showed that independent of age and disease stage, black and American Indian women were approximately 35 percent less likely to undergo surgery than white women, and uninsured and Medicaid - insured patients were roughly 50 percent less likely to undergo surgery than privately insured patients.

According to a study published last year — which looked at genetic testing among 3,000 breast cancer patients in Pennsylvania and Florida — black patients were less than half as likely as white patients to undergo genetic testing.

Among those undergoing SLN biopsy, the rates were 8.8 % for black patients and 6.8 % for white patients.

Over the full study period, 62 % of black patients and 74 % of white patients underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy (P <.001).

A study found that black women were less likely to undergo sentinel lymph node biopsy; photo: biopsy performed on a white patient