2021
Adoption of New Risk Stratification Technologies Within US Hospital Referral Regions and Association With Prostate Cancer Management
Leapman MS, Wang R, Park HS, Yu JB, Sprenkle PC, Dinan MA, Ma X, Gross CP. Adoption of New Risk Stratification Technologies Within US Hospital Referral Regions and Association With Prostate Cancer Management. JAMA Network Open 2021, 4: e2128646. PMID: 34623406, PMCID: PMC8501394, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.28646.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProstate magnetic resonance imagingMagnetic resonance imagingHospital referral regionsProportion of patientsProstate cancerGenomic testingCohort studyReferral regionsRetrospective cohort studyProstate cancer carePatient-level analysisCommercial insurance claimsProstate cancer managementUS hospital referral regionsYears of ageProportion of menPatients 40Definitive treatmentCancer careTesting uptakeHRR levelMAIN OUTCOMECancer managementPatientsRegional uptake
2019
Suicide among cancer patients
Zaorsky NG, Zhang Y, Tuanquin L, Bluethmann SM, Park HS, Chinchilli VM. Suicide among cancer patients. Nature Communications 2019, 10: 207. PMID: 30643135, PMCID: PMC6331593, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08170-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStandardized mortality ratioCancer patientsHigh riskHigher standardized mortality ratiosColorectal cancer patientsEnd Results ProgramPopulation-based studyYears of agePredominant patientsLocalized diseasePerson yearsResults ProgramHodgkin's lymphomaTesticular tumorsMortality ratioRates of suicideGeneral populationPatientsCommitted suicideUnmarried malesLungSuicideRiskRepresentative dataLymphoma