Weichuan Dong

May 21, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Nagaraju Sarabu |Weichuan Dong |Siran M. Koroukian

1 INTRODUCTION Racial and ethnic healthcare disparities are defined as racial or ethnic differences in the quality of healthcare that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and appropriateness of intervention.1 The prevalence of prostate cancer and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), which is defined as being maintained on dialysis or having a kidney transplant, in men in the United States is as follows: over 3 million men with prostate cancer and 2769 men per...

Jul 26, 2023 | acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kirsten Eom |Siran M. Koroukian |Weichuan Dong |Uriel Kim

Background Many studies compare state-level outcomes to estimate changes attributable to Medicaid expansion. However, it is imperative to conduct more granular, demographic-level analyses to inform current efforts on cancer prevention among low-income adults. Therefore, the authors compared the volume of patients with cancer and disease stage at diagnosis in Ohio, which expanded its Medicaid coverage in 2014, with those in Georgia, a nonexpansion state, by cancer site and health insurance status.