Income disparities in needle biopsy patients prior to breast cancer surgery across physician peer groups
Killelea BK, Herrin J, Soulos PR, Pollack CE, Forman HP, Yu J, Xu X, Tannenbaum S, Wang SY, Gross CP. Income disparities in needle biopsy patients prior to breast cancer surgery across physician peer groups. Breast Cancer 2019, 27: 381-388. PMID: 31792804, PMCID: PMC7512133, DOI: 10.1007/s12282-019-01028-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhysician peer groupsLow-income patientsNeedle biopsyOdds ratioHigh-income patientsBreast cancer surgeryMethodsThe SurveillanceCancer surgeryIncome patientsMedicare databaseBiopsy patientsMedicare beneficiariesPatientsBiopsyLow incomeGroupDisparitiesReceiptEnd resultHigher incomeSurgeryPeer groupEpidemiologyFurther workGroup-level effectsLong term outcomes of sentinel lymph node biopsy for ductal carcinoma in situ
Hung P, Wang SY, Killelea BK, Mougalian SS, Evans SB, Sedghi T, Gross CP. Long term outcomes of sentinel lymph node biopsy for ductal carcinoma in situ. JNCI Cancer Spectrum 2019, 3: pkz052. PMID: 32337481, PMCID: PMC7049982, DOI: 10.1093/jncics/pkz052.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSentinel lymph node biopsyBreast-conserving surgeryBreast cancer mortalityLong-term outcomesDuctal carcinomaCancer mortalityEnd Results-Medicare datasetCompeting-risks survival analysisLymph node biopsyPopulation cohort dataNode biopsyOlder patientsSentinel lymphBreast conservationUS SurveillanceTerm outcomesSurvival analysisDCISPatientsStatistical significanceRoutine performanceBiopsySurgeryCarcinomaRecurrence