Racial differences in treatment

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http://prostatecancerblog.org/?p=101

New study raises challenges for advocates and the medical community.

What can we do to change the dynamic and lower the death rate. Are advocates

too focused on screening, easier, and not focused enough on changing the

treatment dynamic. As one expert said in one linked article, The lack of

improvement may be because efforts against treatment disparities in oncology

have only recently shifted from documentation to assessing interventions,

Dr. Gross and colleagues suggested.

The key to bridging the racial gap may be quality improvement for all

patients, they said.

" Perhaps a rising tide will raise all boats, " they said.

They added, " future efforts to reduce disparities should be incorporated

into a larger quality improvement framework, as our results suggest that all

patients would benefit from greater attention to measuring and improving

quality of cancer care. "