Impact of marital status and race on outcomes of patients enrolled in Radiation Therapy Oncology Group prostate cancer trials

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1317-1325

  Du, Kevin Lee ^a,d   Bae, Kyounghwa ^b   Movsas, Benjamin ^c   Yan, Yan ^b   Bryan, Charlene ^a   Bruner, Deborah Watkins ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUP   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Marital status; Outcomes; Prostate cancer; Race; RTOG

Indexed keywords

GOSERELIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL FAILURE FREE SURVIVAL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GLEASON SCORE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MARRIAGE; META ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I AS TOPIC; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II AS TOPIC; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863984003     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1219-4     Document Type: Article

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