Socioeconomic inequality and omission of adjuvant radiation therapy in high-risk, early-stage endometrial cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Gaps in access to appropriate cancer care, and associated cancer mortality, have widened across socioeconomic groups. We examined whether demographic and socioeconomic factors influenced receipt of adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) in patients with high-risk, early-stage endometrial cancer.

Methods

A retrospective study cohort was selected from 349,404 endometrial carcinoma patients from the National Cancer Database in whom adjuvant RT would be recommended per national guidelines. The study included surgically treated patients with endometrioid endometrial cancer with one of the following criteria: 1) FIGO 2009 stage IB, grade 1/2 disease, age ≥ 60 years; 2) stage IB, grade 3 disease; or 3) stage II disease. Logistic regression analysis was performed to identify fact

SUBMITTER: Luo LY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8084986 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature