Background Health equity for Indigenous peoples in the context of surgery has recently
become topical amongst surgeons in Australasia. Health inequities are amongst the most …

Indigenous Peoples across North America and Oceania experience worse health outcomes
compared to non-Indigenous people, including increased post-operative mortality. Several …

ABSTRACT Māori are more likely than non-Māori to get cancer, and once they have cancer
they are less likely to survive it. One frequently proposed explanation for this survival …

Abstract Background In New Zealand (NZ), Indigenous Māori and Pacific peoples
experience a higher burden of obesity and obesity-related disease. Counties Manukau …

Objective: We aimed to develop and validate a pharmacy-based instrument to measure
comorbidity among cancer patients. Methods: Patients diagnosed with colorectal, breast …

Objectives When combined, liver and stomach cancers are second only to lung cancer as
the most common causes of cancer death for the indigenous Māori population of New …

Purpose An increasing cancer burden among indigenous populations has led to a growing
literature about survival disparities between indigenous and nonindigenous persons. We …

Background: Malaysia is an ethnically diverse nation, comprising Malay, Chinese, Indian
and indigenous groups. However, epidemiological studies on colorectal cancer have mainly …

Bowel cancer continues to be a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in New Zealand.
Around 3,000 new cases of bowel cancer are diagnosed in New Zealand each year. 1 …

PURPOSE The co-occurrence of diabetes and cancer is becoming increasingly common,
and this is likely to compound existing inequities in outcomes from both conditions within …