According to a recent study, specific racial and socioeconomic factors were associated with better survival rates for patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer (LS-SCLC), with African American and Asian patients having better survival rates than White patients after adjusting for sociodemographic factors.
The data, published in JAMA Network Open, also highlighted that, among other things, female sex, higher income, higher education, private insurance, and diagnosis at earlier stages of the disease were all associated with better survival rates for patients of this cancer type.
“The findings of this cohort study suggest that race is associated with survival of L[S]-SCLC, because Asian and African American patients had better survival compared with White patients,” wrote the investigators. “In addition, our results confirmed that female sex, higher median annual income,…
