Underutilization of Surgical Standard of Care for Insured Men with Invasive Penile Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Prior studies of mixed insurance populations have demonstrated poor adherence to surgical standard of care (SOC) for penile cancer. We used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer registry linked to Medicare to calculate SOC adherence to surgical treatment of penile cancer in insured men over the age of 65, focusing on potential social and racial disparities.

Methods

This is an observational analysis of patients with T2-4 penile cancer of any histologic subtype without metastasis in the SEER-Medicare database (2004-2015). SOC was defined as penectomy (partial or radical) with bilateral inguinal lymph node dissection (ILND) based on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines. We calculated proportions of those receiving SOC and

SUBMITTER: Chang EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8063966 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature