When it comes to lung cancer, why do different races and ethnicities suffer unequally?
Yasir Tarabichi, a pulmonology doctor at MetroHealth, tackled this inquiry head-on in a four-year analysis of hundreds of lung cancer patients, the results of which were published in the medical journal Clinical Lung Cancer this month.
The study, aided by a rapid outpatient diagnostic program (RODP) that combs digital medical records, found that individualizing approaches to high-risk patients nearly doubled the chances said person would show up on-time for a CT scan or tissue sampling. And, Tarabichi is most excited to report, the AI-enhanced strategy nearly leveled the response between white and minority patients.
"We found that the biggest improvement was in the racial, ethnic minority individual," Tarabichi told Scene. "That means, well, everybody got better."
With what would become an eight-person team of nurses and lung specialists, Tarabichi began examining the medical records and paths of 909 patients, 54 percent of whom were Black and Hispanic persons, on average, in their early sixties. It was 2017, and Tarabichi was perusing health records of patients' CT scans, wondering why there were such vast delays in followups and surgical biopsies.
"Patients were being referred to specialists, but not a lot of them were following through," Tarabichi told Scene. "So, when I saw that, the answer was, 'We need to start catching these people—when somebody gets referred, we are not letting...
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