Racial/ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer treatment utilization and phase-specific costs, 2000-2014.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our study analyzed disparities in utilization and phase-specific costs of care among older colorectal cancer patients in the United States. We also estimated the phase-specific costs by cancer type, stage at diagnosis, and treatment modality.

Methods

We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database to identify patients aged 66 or older diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer between 2000-2013, with follow-up to death or December 31, 2014. We divided the patient's experience into separate phases of care: staging or surgery, initial, continuing, and terminal. We calculated total, cancer-attributable, and patient-liability costs. We fit logistic regression models to determine predictors of treatment receipt and fit linear regression mode

SUBMITTER: Tramontano AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7156060 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature