Cancer survival among Alaska Native people.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent cancer survival trends among American Indian and Alaska Native (AN) people are not well understood; survival has not been reported among AN people since 2001.

Methods

This study examined cause-specific survival among AN cancer patients for lung, colorectal, female breast, prostate, and kidney cancers. It evaluated whether survival differed between cancers diagnosed in 1992-2002 (the earlier period) and cancers diagnosed in 2003-2013 (the later period) and by the age at diagnosis (<65 vs ≥65 years), stage at diagnosis (local or regional/distant/unknown), and sex. Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate univariate and multivariate-adjusted cause-specific survival for each cancer.

Results

An improvement was observed in 5-y

SUBMITTER: Nash SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6028236 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature