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
2016
Application of a Prognostic Gleason Grade Grouping System to Assess Distant Prostate Cancer Outcomes
Leapman MS, Cowan JE, Simko J, Roberge G, Stohr BA, Carroll PR, Cooperberg MR. Application of a Prognostic Gleason Grade Grouping System to Assess Distant Prostate Cancer Outcomes. European Urology 2016, 71: 750-759. PMID: 27940155, DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2016.11.032.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRisk of PCSMGleason grade groupBone metastasesProstate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor (CaPSURE) registryGroup ICox proportional hazards modelGrade groupBone metastatic progressionGrade group IPrimary androgen deprivationPrognostic grade groupingKaplan-Meier methodProstate cancer outcomesProportional hazards modelGroup VProstate cancer pathologyNondefinitive therapyDefinitive therapyConservative managementUnadjusted riskAndrogen deprivationGleason sumGleason scoreCancer outcomesGrouping system