Racial Differences in the Surgical Care of Medicare Beneficiaries With Localized Prostate Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There is extensive evidence suggesting that black men with localized prostate cancer (PCa) have worse cancer-specific mortality compared with their non-Hispanic white counterparts.

Objective

To evaluate racial disparities in the use, quality of care, and outcomes of radical prostatectomy (RP) in elderly men (≥ 65 years) with nonmetastatic PCa.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective analysis of outcomes stratified according to race (black vs non-Hispanic white) included 2020 elderly black patients (7.6%) and 24,462 elderly non-Hispanic white patients (92.4%) with localized PCa who underwent RP within the first year of PCa diagnosis in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database between 1992 and 2009. The study was p

SUBMITTER: Schmid M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5018381 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature