Racial and ethnic disparities in a state‐wide registry of patients with pancreatic cancer and an exploratory investigation of cancer cachexia as a contributor to observed inequities

Racial and ethnic disparities in a state‐wide registry of patients with pancreatic cancer and an exploratory investigation of cancer cachexia as a contributor to observed inequities

Abstract Pancreatic cancer (PC) is characterized by racial/ethnic disparities and the debilitating muscle‐wasting condition, cancer cachexia. Florida ranks second in the number of PC deaths and has a large and understudied minority population. We examined the primary hypothesis that PC incidence and...

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Main Authors: Jennifer B. Permuth, Ashley Clark Daly, Daniel Jeong, Jung W. Choi, Miles E. Cameron, Dung‐Tsa Chen, Jamie K. Teer, Tracey E. Barnett, Jiannong Li, Benjamin D. Powers, Nagalakshmi B. Kumar, Thomas J. George, Karla N. Ali, Tri Huynh, Shraddha Vyas, Clement K. Gwede, Vani N. Simmons, Pamela J. Hodul, Estrella M. Carballido, Andrew R. Judge, Jason B. Fleming, Nipun Merchant, Jose G. Trevino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-06-01
Series:Cancer Medicine
Subjects:
cachexia
biomarkers
incidence
mortality
pancreatic cancer
racial disparities
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.2180

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https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.2180

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