2024
Area Vulnerability and Disparities in Therapy for Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
Rahman S, Long J, Westvold S, Leapman M, Spees L, Hurwitz M, McManus H, Gross C, Wheeler S, Dinan M. Area Vulnerability and Disparities in Therapy for Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e248747. PMID: 38687479, PMCID: PMC11061765, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.8747.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetastatic renal cell carcinomaArea-level measuresRenal cell carcinomaPatient-level factorsSystemic therapyEthnic disparitiesRelative risk ratiosSocially vulnerable areasCell carcinomaMeasures of social vulnerabilityMedicare beneficiariesCohort studyFee-for-service Medicare Parts AOdds ratioReceipt of systemic therapyLogistic regressionArea-level characteristicsAssociated with lack of treatmentNon-Hispanic blacksRetrospective cohort studyIndividual-level demographicsNon-Hispanic whitesAssociated with disparitiesUS Medicare beneficiariesMeasures of disadvantage
2020
Predicting prostate cancer death among 98,994 veterans: Differences by race/ethnicity.
Janet T, Danciu I, Justice A, Leapman M, McMahon B, Wadia R. Predicting prostate cancer death among 98,994 veterans: Differences by race/ethnicity. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2020, 38: e17609-e17609. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2020.38.15_suppl.e17609.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchProstate cancer deathNon-Hispanic blacksNon-Hispanic whitesVeterans Affairs Healthcare SystemRace/ethnicityHazard ratioGleason scoreCancer deathProstate cancerU.S. Veterans Affairs healthcare systemProstate cancer disease progressionDistant metastatic diseaseProstate cancer mortalityCancer disease progressionLocalized diseasePSA levelsMedian ageMetastatic diseaseLymph nodesPrognostic indexCancer mortalityTumor stageDisease progressionCox modelAge strata