Treatment Access among Younger Medicaid Beneficiaries with Multiple Myeloma
Fiala M, Ji M, Shih Y, Huber J, Wang M, Johnson K, Gasoyan H, Wang R, Colditz G, Wang S, Chang S. Treatment Access among Younger Medicaid Beneficiaries with Multiple Myeloma. Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & Leukemia 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.clml.2024.07.017.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchStem cell transplantationCell transplantationMyeloma therapyMultiple myelomaContinuous enrollmentAssociated with early detectionMulti-State Medicaid DatabaseMultivariate logistic regressionMyeloma patientsSolid tumorsHigh medical needMyeloma treatmentHematological cancersMyelomaPatientsMedicaid databaseClaims-based datasetScreening testAcute medical eventsLogistic regressionEarly detectionDiscontinuous enrollmentMedical needContinuous Medicaid coverageCancer diagnosisFrom criteria to clinic: How updated SLiM CRAB criteria influence multiple myeloma diagnostic activity.
Ji M, Wang M, Shih Y, Huber J, Fiala M, Wang R, Sanfilippo K, Thomas T, Wang S, Schoen M, Chang S. From criteria to clinic: How updated SLiM CRAB criteria influence multiple myeloma diagnostic activity. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2024, 42: 7556-7556. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2024.42.16_suppl.7556.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchInternational Myeloma Working GroupMagnetic resonance imagingFree light chainsMGUS patientsMM casesActive MMDiagnostic criteriaMultiple myelomaPlasma cellsClonal bone marrow plasma cellsComputed tomographyOld criteriaPositron emission tomography-CTBone marrow plasma cellsSerum free light chainsSLiM-CRAB criteriaProgression to MMClonal plasma cellsMarrow plasma cellsMM patient outcomePlasma cell malignancyAggressive diagnostic strategyInternational Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9/10 codesCRAB symptomsPositive detection rateRacial differences in treatment and survival among older patients with multiple myeloma
Wang R, Neparidze N, Ma X, Colditz G, Chang S, Wang S. Racial differences in treatment and survival among older patients with multiple myeloma. Cancer Medicine 2024, 13: e6915. PMID: 38234237, PMCID: PMC10905251, DOI: 10.1002/cam4.6915.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNon-Hispanic whitesNon-Hispanic white patientsMultiple myelomaRacial differencesHazard ratioReceipt of treatmentOlder patientsIncreasing racial disparitiesIntroduction of novel agentsCox proportional hazards modelsMultivariate Cox proportional hazards modelLower mortalityStudy investigated racial differencesAssess survival outcomesProportional hazards modelNon-HispanicProportion of patientsMedicare beneficiariesRacial disparitiesTreatment utilizationHazards modelSurvival outcomesNovel agentsMM survivalMM treatment