In 2014, a provision under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect that allowed states to opt into expanding Medicaid eligibility to adults with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty guidelines.

In a landmark study published in the prestigious journal Cancer Discovery, researchers have unveiled compelling evidence that the expansion of Medicaid—a critical component of the Affordable Care Act—has significantly improved five-year survival outcomes for cancer patients across the United States. This comprehensive investigation, led by Elizabeth Schafer, MPH, an associate scientist at the American Cancer Society, explores the long-term impacts of health policy changes on oncological prognosis, revealing a tangible, positive shift in patient survival linked with expanded healthcare access.

Residents of rural, high-poverty areas derived greatest benefit versus non-expansion states

Abstract. Environmental exposures are linked to precancerous hematologic conditions, but studies in cohorts with well-defined exposures are limited. We sequenced blood samples from a large cohort of f...

Elizabeth McKenna: Early Pancreatic Cancer Detection Improved with cfDNA Model-CD-AACR / CD-AACR, Chuntao Gao, Dongqin Zhu, Elizabeth McKenna, Fenglin Zang,