2024
Correlation of stress, depression, sleep, and pain with race and body mass index (BMI): Secondary analysis from Alliance A011502.
Gandhi S, Ballman K, Holmes M, Visvanathan K, Symington B, Carvan M, Matyka C, Weiss A, Winer E, Razaq W, Carey L, Partridge A, Chen W. Correlation of stress, depression, sleep, and pain with race and body mass index (BMI): Secondary analysis from Alliance A011502. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2024, 42: e23171-e23171. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2024.42.16_suppl.e23171.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPittsburgh Sleep Quality IndexPerceived Stress ScaleBrief Pain InventoryBody mass indexCESD-REpidemiologic Studies Depression Scale-RevisedCenter for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale-RevisedModerate/severe painBlack womenPoor sleepSleep qualityCESD-R scoresPerceived Stress Scale scoresAssociated with higher stressPittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scoreNonmetastatic breast cancerAssociation of stressSleep Quality IndexBreast cancerAssociated with worse clinical outcomesStatistically significant associationNo depressionBrief Pain Inventory scoresOutcome disparitiesChi-square test
2013
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Receipt of Timely Adjuvant Therapy for Older Women with Breast Cancer: Are Delays Influenced by the Hospitals Where Patients Obtain Surgical Care?
Freedman RA, He Y, Winer EP, Keating NL. Racial/Ethnic Differences in Receipt of Timely Adjuvant Therapy for Older Women with Breast Cancer: Are Delays Influenced by the Hospitals Where Patients Obtain Surgical Care? Health Services Research 2013, 48: 1669-1683. PMID: 23663229, PMCID: PMC3796107, DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12063.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTreatment delayBreast cancerTimely adjuvant therapyEnd Results (SEER) dataMultivariable logistic regressionEthnic differencesRace/ethnicityAdjuvant chemotherapyAdjuvant therapyMedicare claimsSurgical careHigher oddsOlder womenHispanic womenStage IHospitalLogistic regressionRacial disparitiesWomenPatientsBlack womenCancerCareResult dataImportant contributor
2009
Racial Differences in Definitive Breast Cancer Therapy in Older Women
Keating NL, Kouri E, He Y, Weeks JC, Winer EP. Racial Differences in Definitive Breast Cancer Therapy in Older Women. Medical Care 2009, 47: 765-773. PMID: 19536008, DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0b013e31819e1fe7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAge FactorsAgedBlack or African AmericanBreast NeoplasmsChi-Square DistributionFemaleHealth Services ResearchHealthcare DisparitiesHospitalsHumansLogistic ModelsMastectomyMedicareMultivariate AnalysisPractice Patterns, Physicians'Quality of Health CareSEER ProgramSensitivity and SpecificitySocioeconomic FactorsUnited StatesWhite PeopleConceptsHigh-volume hospitalsDefinitive primary therapyHigh-quality hospitalsBreast-conserving surgeryBreast cancer therapyBreast cancerPrimary therapyWhite womenRacial disparitiesStage I/II breast cancerBlack womenPrimary breast cancer therapyEarly-stage breast cancerLow-volume hospitalsBreast cancer patientsBreast cancer surgeryPatterns of careSEER-Medicare databaseCancer therapyPopulation-based sampleOlder Black womenDefinitive therapyVolume hospitalsCancer surgeryCancer patients