With equal access, African American patients have superior survival compared to white patients with multiple myeloma: a VA study

Nathanael R Fillmore; Sarvari V Yellapragada; Chizoba Ifeorah; Ansh Mehta; Diana Cirstea; Paul S White; Gustavo Rivero; Andrew Zimolzak; Saiju Pyarajan; Nhan Do; Mary Brophy; Nikhil C Munshi

doi:10.1182/blood.2019000406

With equal access, African American patients have superior survival compared to white patients with multiple myeloma: a VA study

Blood. 2019 Jun 13;133(24):2615-2618. doi: 10.1182/blood.2019000406. Epub 2019 Apr 19.

Authors

Nathanael R Fillmore^{1

2

3}, Sarvari V Yellapragada^{4

5}, Chizoba Ifeorah^{4

5}, Ansh Mehta⁶, Diana Cirstea^{1

7}, Paul S White^{1

7}, Gustavo Rivero^{4

5}, Andrew Zimolzak^{1

5}, Saiju Pyarajan^{1

2}, Nhan Do^{1

7}, Mary Brophy^{1

7}, Nikhil C Munshi^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA.
² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
³ Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.
⁴ Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX.
⁵ Section of Hematology and Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
⁶ University of South Alabama Hospitals, Mobile, AL; and.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Black or African American
Female
Health Services Accessibility
Health Status Disparities*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Multiple Myeloma / ethnology*
Multiple Myeloma / mortality*
United States / epidemiology
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
White People

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding