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J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:13 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701m
  • Wednesday 9 September, Parallel session A
  • Inequalities I

Ethnicity and cancer treatment in New Zealand: do Maori patients get a worse deal?

  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

      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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