A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network adds to the evidence that, if you are a young Indigenous person in America, the health care system is far more likely to fail you if you get sick with cancer.
To learn this, researchers analyzed cancer statistics for more than 290,000 patients between the ages of 15 and 39 from 2004 to 2017. The selected patients had all been diagnosed with at least one of the 10 deadliest cancers, including breast, colon, lung, ovarian and testicular cancers. They then examined disparities in rates of both diagnosis and survival among those patients based on where they fall within America's five federally defined races (Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black and non-Hispanic white).
