Cancer patients are more likely to survive if they live in a state that expanded its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act, new research shows.
Patients were more likely to have higher five-year and overall survival rates if their state had expanded Medicaid, researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Cancer.
"The evidence supporting Medicaid expansion in improving outcomes for cancer patients is clear," lead researcher Elizabeth Schafer, an associate scientist at the American Cancer Society, said in a news release.
"Research has shown that Medicaid expansion can increase cancer screening prevalence, early-stage diagnosis, short-term survival and now -- according to our own analysis -- five-year survival," she said.
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