Association of Race, Ethnicity, Insurance, and Language and Rate of Breast-Conserving Therapy Among Women With Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer at an Urban …

A Fefferman, BR Beaulieu-Jones, G Shewmaker… - Journal of Surgical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Breast-conserving therapy (BCT), specifically breast-conserving surgery (BCS)
and adjuvant radiation, provides an equivalent alternative to mastectomy for eligible …

Limited English Proficiency and Graves' Disease at an Urban Safety Net Hospital

CA Annesi, AP Woods, NE Kim, EN Pearce… - Journal of Surgical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction Decision-making regarding definitive therapy for Graves' disease requires
effective patient-provider communication. We investigated whether patients with limited …

ASO Author Reflections: Investigating the Relationship Between Patient Primary Language and Surgical Oncology Outcomes

AP Woods, FT Drake - Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2022 - Springer
Although language barriers between patients and their care teams are recognized as an
important research priority, 1 few studies have examined this potential source of disparities …