Jieying Chen, Liying Qiao, Meng Qi, Yunjing Zhang, Ying Yan, Weiwei Kang, Huziwei Zhou, Yuelin Yu, Yalei Ke, Yuling Jiang, Yingting Rao, Lu Xu, Guohua He, Jing Ren, Xue Yan, Siwei Deng, Xinyu Yang, Yutong Song, Yingzi Yang, Qiaorui Wen, Jing Han, Yiwei Wu, Guozhen Liu, Mingyuan Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yunfeng Xi, Shengfeng Wang
BACKGROUND: Whether health inequalities of disease burden and medical utilization exist by ethnicity in Asian breast cancer (BC) patients remains unclear. We aim to measure ethnic disparities in disease burden and utilization among Mongolian and Han female breast cancer patients in China. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Based on data extracted from Inner Mongolia Regional Health Information Platform, a retrospective cohort study was established during 2012-2021. Disease burden including incidence, 5-year prevalence, mortality, survival rate, and medical cost were analyzed and compared between Han and Mongolian patients...
April 11, 2024: International Journal of Surgery