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Abstract Background Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality across U.S. racial/ethnic groups. Existing studies often focus on a particular race/ethnicity or single domain within the care continuum. Granular exploration of disparities among different racial/ethnic groups across the entire colon cancer care continuum is needed. We aimed to characterize differences in colon cancer outcomes by race/ethnicity across each stage of the care continuum. Methods We used the 2010–2017 National Cancer Database to examine differences in outcomes by race/ethnicity across six domains: clinical stage at presentation; timing of surgery; access to minimally invasive surgery; post-operative outcomes; utilization of chemotherapy; and cumulative incidence of death. Analysis was via multivariable logistic or median regression, with select demographics, hospital factors, and treatment details as covariates. Results 326,003 patients (49.6% female, 24.0% non-White, including 12.7% Black, 6.1% Hispanic/Spanish, 1.3% East Asian, 0.9% Southeast Asian, 0.4% South Asian, 0.3% AIAE, and 0.2% NHOPI) met inclusion criteria. Relative to non-Hispanic White patients: Southeast Asian (OR 1.39, p

Background:. Optimal therapy for stage II colon cancer remains unclear, and national guidelines recommend “consideration” of adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT) in the presence of high-risk features, including inadequate lymph node yield (LNY,

Introduction: Faster time to ambulation (TTA) after video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is associated with improved outcomes. We hypothesized that reduced urinary catheter duration leads to shorter TTA after VATS lobectomy. Methods: We studied VATS lobectomy patients from 2014 through 2018. TTA of patients that did not have urinary catheters or whose catheters were removed at the end of the operation (reduced cath) was compared to TTA of those whose catheters were removed the day after surgery (long cath). Results: Overall, 67 and 234 patients were included in the reduced cath and long cath groups, respectively. Median TTA was shorter in the reduced cath group compared to the long cath group (6.5 h Q1-Q3: 4.8-10.7 vs 11.0 h Q1-Q3: 6.8-18.3, p