Patterns of stereotactic body radiation therapy: The influence of lung cancer treatment on prostate cancer treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Technology availability and prior experience with novel cancer treatments may partially drive their use. We sought to examine this issue in the context of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) by studying how its use for an established indication (lung cancer) impacts its use for an emerging indication (prostate cancer).

Methods

Using SEER-Medicare from 2007 to 2011, we developed prostate cancer-specific physician-hospital networks. Our primary dependent variable was SBRT use for prostate cancer and our primary independent variable was SBRT use for lung cancer, both at the network level. To assess the influence of SBRT availability and experiential use, we generated predicted probabilities of SBRT use for prostate cancer stratified by a network's use of lun

SUBMITTER: Jacobs BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6954961 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature