Influence of Geography on Prostate Cancer Treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Several definitive treatment options are available for prostate cancer, but geographic access to those options is not uniform. We created maps illustrating provider practice patterns relation to patients and assessed the influence of distance to treatment receipt.

Methods and materials

The patient cohort was created by searching the National Medicare Database for patients diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer from 2011 to 2014. The provider cohort was created by querying the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile to identify physicians who had treated patients with prostatectomy, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), brachytherapy, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), or proton therapy. Maps detailing the location of providers were creat

SUBMITTER: Tang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8647931 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature