Even when treatment is given, there may be significant differences in the treatment modalities that are either selected by or offered to those of different racial and socioeconomic status [ 6 ].
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Racial and socioeconomic disparities in the selection of prostate brachytherapy.
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When analyzing the entire cohort, there was an overall trend for increased brachytherapy use in patients of Caucasian race, lower risk disease and higher socioeconomic status ( Table 1 ).
When controlling for NCCN risk group alone, there remained a highly significant disparity in brachytherapy use with increasing socioeconomic quartiles except for the comparisons between the two higher quartiles for low and intermediate risk disease ( Table 2 ).