the white patients with lung or colorectal cancer are less likely that patients with other races or ethnic groups to use their personal financial resources to prolong their lives, a new study concludes.
American researchers analyzed data from 4,214 participants in the research study on the results of monitoring of patients with newly diagnosed Lung Cancer care or colorectal cancer.
Patients were interviewed on various aspects of care, including their willingness to exhaust their personal financial resources for the treatment of life rather than less expensive treatment that would not extend their lives also long.
Those who said that they spent all their money to live longer included 80 percent of black patients, 72% of the Asian, 69% of Hispanics and 54% of whites.
After that researchers accounted for factors such as income, stage of disease, quality of life, age of patient, time perceived patient left to live and other medical conditions, researchers have determined that patients black were 2.4 times more likely than whites to say they would exhaust their personal finance life.
Hispanic and Asian patients were also less inclined to spend their money than blacks, but it is more likely than whites to do so.
The study appears online on April 26 in the journal Cancer.
Further research is needed to determine the reasons for these differences between races, said Michelle Martin of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and his colleagues in a press release of the newspaper. Learn more about this issue can lead to a cancer care reflecting systematically the preferences and values of patients, they added.
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