What The Study Did: This study of nearly 40,000 Medicare beneficiaries investigated the factors associated with the racial disparity in the use of prostate magnetic resonance imaging among Black and white patients with a new diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Authors: Michael S. Leapman, M.D., of the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.8116)
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