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SUBMITTER: Sunthankar KI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7491712 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sunthankar Kathryn I KI Griffith Kevin N KN Talutis Stephanie D SD Rosen Amy K AK McAneny David B DB Kulke Matthew H MH Tseng Jennifer F JF Sachs Teviah E TE
PloS one 20200915 9
Patients who are incarcerated are a vulnerable patient population and may suffer from less access to routine cancer screenings compared to their non-incarcerated counterparts. Therefore, a thorough evaluation of potential differences in cancer diagnosis staging is needed. We sought to examine whether there are differences in cancer stage at initial diagnosis between non-incarcerated and incarcerated patients by pursuing a retrospective chart review from 2010-2017 for all patients who were newly ...[more]