Low-income women with diabetes were less likely to receive adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy to treat breast cancer compared with those without diabetes.
Low-income women with diabetes were less likely to receive adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy to treat breast cancer , to complete their chemotherapy regimen, and to adhere to endocrine therapy compared with those without diabetes.Diabetes disproportionately affects low-income adults and up to one third of women with breast cancer .
Among the 3704 women undergoing surgery, nearly 21% had preexisting diabetes, 64% received radiotherapy, 60% underwent chemotherapy, and 68% had endocrine therapy. Among the 1990 patients with node-positive, hormone receptor-negative or ERBB2-positive invasive breast cancer, women with diabetes were less likely to receive chemotherapy as well as complete chemotherapy .
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