Minority and low-income populations have less involvement in their cancer care, experience worse health-related quality of life, and register more acute care visits and higher total costs of care than their affluent and white counterparts.
However, incorporation of a community-based intervention into health care delivery for these underserved populations may yield significant improvement in these measures, according to a study presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.
The intervention, LEAPS, uses community health workers trained to facilitate patients/clinician discussions of cancer care, particularly