Racial disparities in the use of SBRT for treating early-stage lung cancer
Corso CD, Park HS, Kim AW, Yu JB, Husain Z, Decker RH. Racial disparities in the use of SBRT for treating early-stage lung cancer. Lung Cancer 2015, 89: 133-138. PMID: 26051446, DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2015.05.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStereotactic body radiotherapyUse of SBRTEarly-stage lung cancerBlack patientsExternal beam radiationWhite patientsAggressive therapyLung cancerRacial disparitiesNon-operative cohortNational Cancer DatabaseStage I NSCLCPrimary treatment modalitySurgical resection rateMultivariable logistic regressionPopulation-based studyPotential racial disparitiesInoperable candidatesSBRT useSBRT utilizationInoperable patientsResection rateSurgical resectionMultivariable analysisSurgical intervention