The Medical journal of Australia
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Survival of Indigenous Australians receiving renal replacement therapy: closing the gap?
To compare mortality rates for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians commencing renal replacement therapy (RRT) over time and by categories of remoteness of place of residence. ⋯ Although unadjusted analysis suggests that the survival gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients receiving RRT has closed, there remains a significant disparity in survival after adjusting for the variables considered in our study.
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To determine whether Aboriginal people in New South Wales were diagnosed with more advanced cancer than non-Aboriginal people. ⋯ Aboriginal people were more likely than non-Aboriginal people to be diagnosed with more advanced cancer for only a few cancer types, most notably head and neck cancers. Differences in spread of disease at diagnosis are unlikely to explain much of the survival differences observed across a wide range of cancers between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in NSW.