Targeted Oncology (10/14, Sava) reported, “Whether a patient with gynecologic cancer has insurance or is underinsured, there are major barriers which currently exist in accessing and affording quality care for the treatment of their cancer.” Such “disparities are a major problem as they contribute to one-third of women with gynecologic cancer never visiting a gynecologic oncologist, even though this is the standard of care recommended by both the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).” The article interviewed University of Pennsylvania Gynecologic Oncology Fellow Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith, MD, about “the effects various insurance types have on the quality of care of patients with gynecologic cancers.”
