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Ovarian Cancer Treatment and Survival Trends Among Women Older Than 65 Years of Age in the United States, 1995–2008 by Lin, Jenny J., Egorova, Natalia, Franco, Rebeca, Prasad-Hayes, Monica, Bickell, Nina A.

“…To evaluate whether overall survival is improving among women in the United States with advanced ovarian cancer. This retrospective cohort study evaluated…”
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Underuse of Breast Cancer Adjuvant Treatment: Patient Knowledge, Beliefs, and Medical Mistrust by BICKELL, Nina A, WEIDMANN, Jessica, KEZHEN FEI, LIN, Jenny J, LEVENTHAL, Howard

“…Little is known about why women with breast cancer who have surgery do not receive proven effective postsurgical adjuvant treatments. We surveyed 258 women who…”
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Insulin resistance contributes to racial disparities in breast cancer prognosis in US women by Gallagher, Emily J, Fei, Kezhen, Feldman, Sheldon M, Port, Elisa, Friedman, Neil B, Boolbol, Susan K, Killelea, Brigid, Pilewskie, Melissa, Choi, Lydia, King, Tari, Nayak, Anupma, Franco, Rebeca, Cruz, Daliz, Antoniou, Irini M, LeRoith, Derek, Bickell, Nina A

“…Racial disparities in breast cancer survival between Black and White women persist across all stages of breast cancer. The metabolic syndrome (MetS) of insulin…”
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Cancer beliefs and screening behaviors: The impact of neighborhood and other social determinants of health by Layne, Tracy M, Agarwal, Parul, Rapkin, Bruce D, Jandorf, Lina H, Bickell, Nina A

“…Beliefs about cancer influence breast and colorectal cancer (CRC) screening behavior. Screening rates for these cancers differ in the contiguous neighborhoods…”
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Missed Opportunities: Racial Disparities in Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatment by BICKELL, Nina A, WANG, Jason J, OLUWOLE, Soji, SCHRAG, Deborah, GODFREY, Henry, HIOTIS, Karen, MENDEZ, Jane, GUTH, Amber A

“…Underuse of adjuvant therapy is a potentially important and remediable explanation for the inferior survival of minority women with breast cancer. We sought to…”
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Lost Opportunities: Physicians' Reasons and Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment by BICKELL, Nina A, LEPAR, Felice, WANG, Jason J, LEVENTHAL, Howard

“…Women with breast cancer do not consistently receive adjuvant treatments that have been shown to increase survival. Acquiring an understanding of the reasons…”
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How Time Affects the Risk of Rupture in Appendicitis by Bickell, Nina A., Aufses, Arthur H., Rojas, Mary, Bodian, Carol

“…Increasing time between symptom onset and treatment may be a risk factor for a ruptured appendix, but little is known about how the risk changes with passing…”
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Quality of Breast Cancer Care: Perception Versus Practice by BICKELL, Nina A, NEUMAN, Jennifer, FEI, Kezhen, FRANCO, Rebeca, JOSEPH, Kathie-Ann

“…Because insurers use performance and quality metrics to inform reimbursement, identifying remediable causes of poor-quality cancer care is imperative. We…”
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Liver Cancer Disparities in New York City: A Neighborhood View of Risk and Harm Reduction Factors by Kamath, Geetanjali R, Taioli, Emanuela, N Egorova, Natalia, Llovet, Josep M, Perumalswami, Ponni V, Weiss, Jeffrey J, Schwartz, Myron, Ewala, Stanley, Bickell, Nina A

“…Liver cancer is the fastest increasing cancer in the United States and is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in New York City (NYC), with wide…”
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Comparing Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision Making in a Resource-rich and a Resource-poor Environment: A Tale of two Hospitals by Walker, Daniel M., Ph.D., M.P.H, McAlearney, Ann Scheck, ScD., M.S, Sova, Lindsey N., M.P.H, Lin, Jenny J., M.D., M.P.H, Abramson, Sarah, Bickell, Nina A., M.D., M.P.H

“…Abstract Objective Black men with prostate cancer are diagnosed later, have poorer treatment outcomes, and higher mortality from the disease than all other…”
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Factors associated with delays to emergency care for bowel obstruction by Hwang, Ula, M.D., M.P.H, Aufses, Arthur H., M.D., F.A.C.S, Bickell, Nina A., M.D., M.P.H

“…Abstract Background Our objective was to determine factors associated with delays to first treatment for emergency department (ED) patients diagnosed with…”
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Utilization of Oncotype DX in an Inner City Population: Race or Place? by Guth, Amber A., Fineberg, Susan, Fei, Kezhen, Franco, Rebeca, Bickell, Nina A.

“…Oncotype DX, a 21-gene-array analysis, can guide chemotherapy treatment decisions for women with ER+ tumors. Of 225 ER+ women participating in a patient…”
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Subjective social status, race, and metabolic syndrome in women with breast cancer by Greco, Giampaolo, Bickell, Nina A., Lin, Sylvia, Yagnik, Radhi, LeRoith, Derek, Gallagher, Emily J.

“…Purpose To evaluate the association of subjective social status (SSS) with metabolic syndrome (MetS) severity and its potential contribution to racial health…”
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Challenges of implementation and implementation research: Learning from an intervention study designed to improve tumor registry reporting by McAlearney, Ann Scheck, Walker, Daniel M, Livaudais-Toman, Jennifer, Parides, Michael, Bickell, Nina A

“…Objectives: Implementation of interventions designed to improve the quality of medical care often proceeds differently from what is planned. Improving existing…”
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The Effect on Travel Distance of a Statewide Regionalization Policy for Initial Breast Cancer Surgery by Bickell, Nina A, Nattinger, Ann B, McGinley, Emily L, Schymura, Maria J, Laud, Purushottam W, Pezzin, Liliana E

“…Reimbursement strategies to regionalize care can be effective for improving patient outcomes but may adversely affect access to care. We sought to determine…”
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Facilitators of Multiple Myeloma Treatment: A Qualitative Study by Blejec, Stefanie, Cytryn, Rose, Yagnik, Radhi, Bickell, Nina A, Lin, Jenny J

“…To examine factors that lead to the facilitation of multiple myeloma (MM) treatment. 29 patients who had been diagnosed with MM at Mount Sinai Hospital in New…”
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Can Regionalization of Care Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities in Breast Cancer Survival? by Nattinger, Ann B., Rademacher, Nicole, McGinley, Emily L., Bickell, Nina A., Pezzin, Liliana E.

“…BACKGROUND:Breast cancer patients of low socioeconomic status (SES) have worse survival than more affluent women and are also more likely to undergo surgery in…”
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Centralization of Initial Care and Improved Survival of Poor Patients With Breast Cancer by Nattinger, Ann B, Bickell, Nina A, Schymura, Maria J, Laud, Purushottam, McGinley, Emily L, Fergestrom, Nicole, Pezzin, Liliana E

“…Poor women with breast cancer have worse survival than others, and are more likely to undergo surgery in low-volume facilities. We leveraged a natural…”
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Multiple myeloma, race, insurance and treatment by Joshi, Himanshu, Lin, Sylvia, Fei, Kezhen, Renteria, Anne S., Jacobs, Hannah, Mazumdar, Madhu, Jagannath, Sundar, Bickell, Nina A.

“…•Age, race, ethnicity, and insurance contribute to the underuse of myeloma treatment.•Underuse of induction therapy was significantly associated with reduced…”
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Where you live can impact your cancer risk: a look at multiple myeloma in New York City by Kamath, Geetanjali R., Renteria, Anne S., Jagannath, Sundar, Gallagher, Emily Jane, Parekh, Samir, Bickell, Nina A.

“…To visualize variation in multiple myeloma (MM) incidence and mortality rates by race-ethnicity and geographic location and evaluate their correlation with…”
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