2022
Factors associated with the quality of end-of-life care for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
Dzimitrowicz H, Wilson L, Jackson B, Spees L, Baggett C, Greiner M, Kaye D, Zhang T, George D, Scales C, Pritchard J, Leapman M, Gross C, Dinan M, Wheeler S. Factors associated with the quality of end-of-life care for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2022, 40: 300-300. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2022.40.6_suppl.300.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMetastatic renal cell carcinomaOral anti-cancer agentsRenal cell carcinomaSEER-MedicareDays of lifeSystemic therapyICU admissionCell carcinomaOdds ratioLife careSEER-Medicare cohortSystemic therapy useMultivariable logistic regressionUse of hospiceQuality of endHigh-quality endMRCC diagnosisAnti-cancer agentsMost patientsOlder patientsHospital admissionMedian ageTherapy useImmunotherapy treatmentRetrospective study
2021
Analysis of Sociodemographic, Clinical, and Genomic Factors Associated With Breast Cancer Mortality in the Linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results and Medicare Database
Robinson TJ, Wilson LE, Marcom PK, Troester M, Lynch CF, Hernandez BY, Parrilla E, Brauer HA, Dinan MA. Analysis of Sociodemographic, Clinical, and Genomic Factors Associated With Breast Cancer Mortality in the Linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results and Medicare Database. JAMA Network Open 2021, 4: e2131020. PMID: 34714340, PMCID: PMC8556625, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.31020.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsResidual tissue repositoryBreast cancer outcomesSEER-Medicare dataCancer outcomesCox proportional hazards regression modelHealth servicesEstrogen receptor-positive invasive breast cancerSymptomatic detectionBreast cancer-specific survivalPopulation-based cohort studyEstrogen receptor-positive tumorsProportional hazards regression modelsExploratory genomic analysisSEER-Medicare cohortCancer-specific survivalSocioeconomic statusHigh-grade diseaseInvasive breast cancerReceptor-positive tumorsSubset of womenBreast cancer mortalityAdvanced disease stageHazards regression modelsClaims-based algorithmGrowth factor β activation