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Patients with Medicaid and those lacking insurance have higher risk of advanced laryngeal cancer
08-20-2007 · EurekAlert!Individuals with advanced-stage laryngeal cancer at diagnosis were more likely to be uninsured or covered by Medicaid than to have private insurance, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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