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Wednesday 9 September, Parallel session A
Inequalities I
Ethnicity and cancer treatment in New Zealand: do Maori patients get a worse deal?
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  1. S. Hill1,
  2. D. Sarfati2,
  3. T. Blakely2,
  4. B. Robson2
  1. 1
    University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
  2. 2
    University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2009.096701m

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      Background

      Ethnic or racial disparities in cancer treatment have been documented in several countries and cancer types. We examined and compared treatment of Mâori (Indigenous) and non-Mâori New Zealanders with colon cancer.

      Methods

      From the New Zealand Cancer Registry we identified a population-based cohort of 629 patients diagnosed with colon cancer between 1996 and …

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