Assessing non-cancer-related health status of US cancer patients: other-cause survival and comorbidity prevalence.

ABSTRACT: With advances in prevention, screening, and treatment, cancer patients are living longer; hence, non-cancer-related health status will likely play a larger role in determining their life expectancy. In this study, we present a novel method for characterizing non-cancer--related health status of cancer patients using population-based cancer registry data. We assessed non-cancer-related health status in the context of survival from other causes of death and prevalence of comorbidities. Data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program (2000-2006) were used to analyze cancer patients' survival probabilities by cause of death. Other-cause survival was estimated using a left-truncated survival method with the hazard of death due to other causes characterized as a function of age

SUBMITTER: Cho H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3816346 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature