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White women with private insurance waited an average of 15.9 days between breast cancer testing and confirmatory diagnosis, while privately insured black women waited 27.1 days and Latinas 51.4 days, according to a new study.
The study, which involved almost 1,000 women examined for breast cancer, indicates that race/ethnicity plays a larger role than insurance in getting a timely breast cancer diagnosis.
For women on Medicare or Medicaid, the wait between testing and diagnosis was 11.9 days for whites, 39.4 days for blacks and 70.8 days for Latinas.
Among those without insurance, the wait was 44.5 days for whites compared with 59.7 days for blacks and 66.5 days for Latinas.
By The Numbers
25.1
percent
of Latinos remain without health insurance coverage
