Comorbidities and endometrial cancer survival in Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We investigated comorbidities and endometrial cancer survival by ethnicity because Hispanic whites (HWs) have worse survival than non-Hispanic whites (NHWs).

Methods

An endometrial cancer cohort (1992-2004) established with the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results-Medicare-linked database (n = 3,286) was followed through 2007. Endometrial cancer-specific and other cause mortality were evaluated with multivariate hazard ratios (mHRs).

Results

HWs were more likely than NHWs to have regional/distant disease (31.7 vs. 24.8 %), diabetes (31.7 vs. 11.0 %), and hypertension (49.4 vs. 37.6 %). HWs had poorer endometrial cancer-specific survival than NHWs (age-adjusted HR = 1.28; 95% CI 1.01-1.61), but not after adjustment for tumor characteristics and treatment

SUBMITTER: Cook LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3529816 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature