Zipkin, Ronnie J.
Schaefer, Andrew
Wang, Changzhen
Loehrer, Andrew P.
Kapadia, Nirav S.
Brooks, Gabriel A.
Onega, Tracy
Wang, Fahui
O’Malley, Alistair J.
Moen, Erika L.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Aging (P01 AG019783)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P20 GM104416)
Article History
Received: 29 November 2021
Accepted: 15 April 2022
First Online: 24 May 2022
Disclosures
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study employs a claims-based, registry-validated approach to identifying incident breast cancer diagnoses among female Medicare beneficiaries. Given its unknown sensitivity and specificity among male beneficiaries, and that prior research on surgical delays among newly diagnosed breast cancer patients has focused on women patients, we similarly focused our analysis on female patients.