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To the Editor: We believe that racial differences in social and economic factors and in coexisting illness may have confounded the finding, reported by Bach et al. (Oct. 14 issue),¹ that black patients with early-stage non–small-cell lung cancer were less likely to receive surgical treatment and to survive than similar white patients. We offer four suggestions for dealing with these potential confounding variables more effectively.

First, Bach et al. did not include marital status in their statistical models. In the U.S. population of persons 65 to 84 years old, relatively fewer blacks than whites are married and living with a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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