Editorial: Slow Progress in Cancer Care Disparities: HIPAA, PPACA, and CHEWBACCA… But We're Still not There! - the Oncologist

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Several factors (Table 1) appear to contribute to these differences in cancer outcomes, and these must become part of our medical consciousness as deficits that require urgent attention and/or resolution.

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Table 1.

Factors associated with disparities of cancer care

What is very clear is that this problem is not unique to the United States