Race linked to colon cancer death rate!

[Guest guest]

Ok so i just read an article on health.dailynewscentral.com, and

apparently there are wide variations of survival rate among different

ethnic groups. According to the article, African Americans and Native

Americans are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cases and die

from it. I would argue that's just because their health care is

worse. Read the article. Tell me what you think.

http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/1164//race_linked_to_colon_cance\

r_death_rate.html

-Briony

[Guest guest]

The site said I was unauthorized but I would say that you are right about

the quality of care having a lot to do with this. In which case it would be

ECONOMICS and good old INSURANCE COVERAGE and not necessarily race that ups the

risk. In certain places Medicaid and sometimes Medicare patients get shoddy

care because both programs take forever to settle claims and then they pay out

a smaller percentage of costs than say Blue Cross and Shield.

It is said that certain races are more prone to certain diseases than

others. From a google search it seems that this is more of a correlation than a

scientific cause and effect.

We tend to associate higher rates of Sickle cell with African Americans, Tay

Sachs with Jewish persons and other diseases with Native Americans. There

may be truth to some of this but it may also be that the Native Americans

were/are living in large groups on reservations without employment or decent

health access. Similarly the African and Jewish American populations studied

live

in groups are often poorer and live in ghetto areas.

As opposed to the white populations they are compared with.

The answer is to make decent health care, diagnostic screening and insurance

available to everyone. This helps level the field and should any disease

actually run more in a group of people it will allow for earlier diagnosis and

treatment.

As with Priscilla's Colon Cancer campaign the US and European countries who

have the best health care should strive for care and screening for all and

disease for none.

Narice

In a message dated 7/1/2005 1:11:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,

brionysmall@... writes:

Ok so i just read an article on health.dailynewscentral.com, and

apparently there are wide variations of survival rate among different

ethnic groups. According to the article, African Americans and Native

Americans are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cases and die

from it. I would argue that's just because their health care is

worse. Read the article. Tell me what you think.

http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/1164//race_linked_to_colon_can

cer_death_rate.html

-Briony

[Guest guest]

The site said I was unauthorized but I would say that you are right about

the quality of care having a lot to do with this. In which case it would be

ECONOMICS and good old INSURANCE COVERAGE and not necessarily race that ups the

risk. In certain places Medicaid and sometimes Medicare patients get shoddy

care because both programs take forever to settle claims and then they pay out

a smaller percentage of costs than say Blue Cross and Shield.

It is said that certain races are more prone to certain diseases than

others. From a google search it seems that this is more of a correlation than a

scientific cause and effect.

We tend to associate higher rates of Sickle cell with African Americans, Tay

Sachs with Jewish persons and other diseases with Native Americans. There

may be truth to some of this but it may also be that the Native Americans

were/are living in large groups on reservations without employment or decent

health access. Similarly the African and Jewish American populations studied

live

in groups are often poorer and live in ghetto areas.

As opposed to the white populations they are compared with.

The answer is to make decent health care, diagnostic screening and insurance

available to everyone. This helps level the field and should any disease

actually run more in a group of people it will allow for earlier diagnosis and

treatment.

As with Priscilla's Colon Cancer campaign the US and European countries who

have the best health care should strive for care and screening for all and

disease for none.

Narice

In a message dated 7/1/2005 1:11:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,

brionysmall@... writes:

Ok so i just read an article on health.dailynewscentral.com, and

apparently there are wide variations of survival rate among different

ethnic groups. According to the article, African Americans and Native

Americans are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cases and die

from it. I would argue that's just because their health care is

worse. Read the article. Tell me what you think.

http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/1164//race_linked_to_colon_can

cer_death_rate.html

-Briony