cancer outcomes. 10 – 13 Nonadherence to guidelines could arise from multiple factors, including structural racism, barriers to access, tumor and patient characteristics, or clinician and patient preferences. 11 Therefore, nonadherence to clinical
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Receipt of Guideline-Concordant Care Does Not Explain Breast Cancer Mortality Disparities by Race in Metropolitan Atlanta
Lindsay J. Collin, Ming Yan, Renjian Jiang, Keerthi Gogineni, Preeti Subhedar, Kevin C. Ward, Jeffrey M. Switchenko, Joseph Lipscomb, Jasmine Miller-Kleinhenz, Mylin A. Torres, Jolinta Lin, and Lauren E. McCullough
Potential Impact of Revised NCI Eligibility Criteria Guidance: Prior Malignancy Exclusion in Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
Matthew Perez, Caitlin C. Murphy, Sandi L. Pruitt, Sawsan Rashdan, Asal Rahimi, and David E. Gerber
the index case. Statistical Analysis We reported the time frame and other characteristics of prior cancer-related exclusion criteria using descriptive statistics (number, percent) and qualitatively assessed similarities and differences in the
Healthcare Cost Trajectories in the Last 2 Years of Life Among Patients With a Solid Metastatic Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study
Ishwarya Balasubramanian, Eric Finkelstein, Rahul Malhotra, Semra Ozdemir, Chetna Malhotra, and for the COMPASS Study Team
– 18 only one study has done so in the context of metastatic cancer, and only for the last year of life. 19 Second, we aimed to assess sociodemographic and clinical characteristics that predict membership of delineated trajectories. Based on previous
Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neurotoxicity in Cancer Survivors: Predictors of Long-Term Patient Outcomes
Eva Battaglini, David Goldstein, Peter Grimison, Susan McCullough, Phil Mendoza-Jones, and Susanna B. Park
were calculated for demographic and clinical characteristics. For the comparison of respondents reporting current CIPN symptoms to those without symptoms, t tests were used for continuous variables and chi-square tests were used for categorical
Impact of Axillary Dissection Among Patients With Sentinel Node–Positive Breast Cancer Undergoing Mastectomy
James Sun, Brittany J. Mathias, Christine Laronga, Weihong Sun, Jun-Min Zhou, William J. Fulp, John V. Kiluk, and M. Catherine Lee
%) had additional nodal disease. Table 1. Demographic and Clinicopathologic Characteristics In terms of adjuvant therapy, 176 (53%) of 329 patients received RT, 245 (75%) received chemotherapy, and 272 (83%) received endocrine therapy ( Table 1 ). Records
Do Outcomes in Elective Colon and Rectal Cancer Surgery Differ by Weekday? An Observational Study Using Data From the Dutch ColoRectal Audit
Daniëlle D. Huijts, Onno R. Guicherit, Jan Willem T. Dekker, Julia T. van Groningen, Leti van Bodegom-Vos, Esther Bastiaannet, Johannes A. Govaert, Michel W. Wouters, and Perla J. Marang-van de Mheen
considered colon and rectal cancer together, whereas patient characteristics, complication risks, and clinical outcomes are different in colon versus rectal cancer. 10 Furthermore, to provide clues for possible quality improvement, other outcomes require
An Analysis of Hospital Costs for Childhood Cancer Care
Owen Tan, Deborah J. Schofield, and Rupendra Shrestha
Patient Characteristics Hospital and ED Costs Hospital treatment costs were estimated using Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRGs) and episode of care LoS. Cost estimates were obtained from the National Hospital Cost Data Collection
Overuse of Chest CT in Patients With Stage I and II Breast Cancer: An Opportunity to Increase Guidelines Compliance at an NCCN Member Institution
Barbara Dull, Andrew Linkugel, Julie A. Margenthaler, and Amy E. Cyr
recorded, as were demographic data and tumor characteristics, such as pathology size and tumor marker profile. Statistical analysis was performed using Fisher exact test and Student unpaired t -test, with a P value <.05 being considered statistically
Predicting All-Cause Mortality in Women With and Without Breast Cancer Using the Schonberg Index: A Women’s Health Initiative Study
Rebecca A. Nelson, Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Mara Schonberg, Joanne Mortimer, Kathy Pan, Lifang Hou, Marian L. Neuhouser, Kerryn W. Reding, Nazmus Saquib, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Emily Wolfson, Mina S. Sedrak, and Laura Kruper
4 classes of variables to predict 10-year mortality risk: demographics, illness burden, functional status, and health behaviors. Because personal characteristics, comorbidity, and functional status can greatly impact life expectancy, several
Longitudinal Analysis of Mental Disorder Burden Among Elderly Patients With Gastrointestinal Malignancies
Jeremy P. Harris, Mehr Kashyap, Jessi N. Humphreys, Daniel T. Chang, and Erqi L. Pollom
additional treatments. Demographic and Clinical Characteristics Using data from the SEER registry, we determined age, sex, race, Hispanic ethnicity, marital status, area income, cancer stage, and disease subsite. 13 Dual Medicaid insurance and Charlson
