Why Do People Forego Potentially Curative Lung Cancer Surgery?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) When lung cancer is found in the early stages, surgery may offer an opportunity for a cure. Still, almost a third of people with stage 1 or stage 2 non-small cell lung cancers that are eligible for surgery don’t have it. And black people are even less likely. Why? First of all, does surgery really make a difference? Yes, for many it does. Those who undergo surgery have a median survival (the time after which 50% of people are still alive and 50% have died) of more than 4 years, whereas those who don’t have surgery have a median survival of less than a year. So researchers wanted to look at the reasons why people would forego surgery. Are there some reasons for this that could be modified? And why are black people less likely to have surgery than whites?
