The Influence of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Adoption on Prostate Cancer Treatment Patterns.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To our knowledge it is unknown whether stereotactic body radiation therapy of prostate cancer is a substitute for other radiation treatments or surgery, or for expanding the pool of patients who undergo treatment instead of active surveillance.

Materials and methods

Using SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results)-Medicare we identified men diagnosed with prostate cancer between 2007 and 2011. We developed physician-hospital networks by identifying the treating physician of each patient based on the primary treatment received and subsequently assigning each physician to a hospital. We examined the relative distribution of prostate cancer treatments stratified by whether stereotactic body radiation therapy was performed in a network by fitting logistic regress

SUBMITTER: Jacobs BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7946357 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature