Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Cancer. 2023 Aug 15;129(16):2453-2455. doi: 10.1002/cncr.34886. Epub 2023 May 28.
This editorial highlights key findings from the manuscript entitled "Experience with the US health care system for Black and White patients with advanced prostate cancer" in the Cancer journal. Namely, the Black men and White men recruited in US sites for the International Registry for Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer (IRONMAN) registry reported similar and mainly affirmative responses for health care quality metrics on a survey. In non-National Cancer Institute-designated centers, the care was actually worse for the White participants than for the Black participants. The study's results suggest that clinical trial enrollment may be a way to improve health care quality and eliminate disparities for Black men. Whether this healthcare quality benefit extends beyond the few IRONMAN recruitment sites where Black men were recruited or beyond a few measures of healthcare quality remains to be seen.
这篇社论强调了题为“美国医疗保健系统治疗晚期前列腺癌的黑人和白人患者的经验”一文的主要发现，该文发表在《癌症杂志》上。具体来说，在美国参与国际晚期前列腺癌男性登记处（IRONMAN）登记的黑人男性和白人男性在一项调查中对医疗质量指标的报告相似，且主要是肯定的。在非美国国立癌症研究所指定的中心，白人参与者的护理实际上比黑人参与者更差。该研究结果表明，临床试验的参与可能是改善医疗质量和消除黑人男性差异的一种方式。这种医疗质量的益处是否不仅限于招募黑人男性的少数几个 IRONMAN 招募站点，或者是否不仅限于少数几个医疗质量指标，还有待观察。
