Insurance status is related to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma survival

Cancer

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1220-1227

  Han, Xuesong ^a   Jemal, Ahmedin ^a   Flowers, Christopher R ^b   Sineshaw, Helmneh ^a   Nastoupil, Loretta J ^b   Ward, Elizabeth ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chemoimmunotherapy; comorbidity; diffuse large B cell lymphoma; insurance; stage; survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

CHEMOIMMUNOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA; INSURANCE; STAGE; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84898024360     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28549     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Halpern MT, Ward EM, Pavluck AL, Schrag NM, Bian J, Chen AY,. Association of insurance status and ethnicity with cancer stage at diagnosis for 12 cancer sites: a retrospective analysis. Lancet Oncol. 2008; 9: 222-231.
2. Ward E, Halpern M, Schrag N, et al. Association of insurance with cancer care utilization and outcomes. CA Cancer J Clin. 2008; 58: 9-31.
3. Ward EM, Fedewa SA, Cokkinides V, Virgo K,. The association of insurance and stage at diagnosis among patients aged 55 to 74 years in the national cancer database. Cancer J. 2010; 16: 614-621.
4. American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures 2013. Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society; 2013.
5. Martin S, Ulrich C, Munsell M, Taylor S, Lange G, Bleyer A,. Delays in cancer diagnosis in underinsured young adults and older adolescents. Oncologist. 2007; 12: 816-824.
6. Flowers CR, Fedewa SA, Chen AY, et al. Disparities in the early adoption of chemoimmunotherapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the United States. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2012; 21: 1520-1530.
7. Shih YC, Elting LS, Halpern MT,. Factors associated with immunotherapy use among newly diagnosed cancer patients. Med Care. 2009; 47: 948-958.
8. Sinha R, Nastoupil L, Flowers CR,. Treatment strategies for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: past, present, and future. Blood Lymphat Cancer. 2012; 2012: 87-98.
9. Shipp MA, Harrington DP, Anderson JR, et al. A predictive model for aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The International Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Prognostic Factors Project. N Engl J Med. 1993; 329: 987-994.
10. Han X, Kilfoy B, Zheng T, et al. Lymphoma survival patterns by WHO subtype in the United States, 1973-2003. Cancer Causes Control. 2008; 19: 841-858.
11. Flowers CR, Sinha R, Vose JM,. Improving outcomes for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. CA Cancer J Clin. 2010; 60: 393-408.
12. Coiffier B, Thieblemont C, Van Den Neste E, et al. Long-term outcome of patients in the LNH-98.5 trial, the first randomized study comparing rituximab-CHOP to standard CHOP chemotherapy in DLBCL patients: a study by the Groupe d'Etudes des Lymphomes de l'Adulte. Blood. 2010; 116: 2040-2045.
13. Feugier P, Van Hoof A, Sebban C, et al. Long-term results of the R-CHOP study in the treatment of elderly patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a study by the Groupe d'Etude des Lymphomes de l'Adulte. J Clin Oncol. 2005; 23: 4117-4126.
14. Pfreundschuh M, Kuhnt E, Trumper L, et al. CHOP-like chemotherapy with or without rituximab in young patients with good-prognosis diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma: 6-year results of an open-label randomised study of the MabThera International Trial (MInT) Group. Lancet Oncol. 2011; 12: 1013-1022.
15. Charlson ME, Pompei P, Ales KL, MacKenzie CR,. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: development and validation. J Chronic Dis. 1987; 40: 373-383.
16. Turner JJ, Morton LM, Linet MS, et al. InterLymph hierarchical classification of lymphoid neoplasms for epidemiologic research based on the WHO classification: update and future directions [serial online]. Blood. 2010; 116: e90-e98.
17. Clark C, O'Malley C,. Chapter 28. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In:, Ries LAG, Young JL, Keel GE, et al. eds. In: SEER Survival Monograph: Cancer Survival Among Adults: US SEER Program, 1988-2001, Patient and Tumor Characteristics. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute; 2007.
18. Greaves W, Xiao L, Sanchez-Espiridion B, et al. Detection of ABCC1 expression in classical Hodgkin lymphoma is associated with increased risk of treatment failure using standard chemotherapy protocols [serial online]. J Hematol Oncol. 2012; 5: 47.
19. United States Census Bureau. Health Status, Health Insurance, and Medical Services Utilization (2001 to 2011 tables). Available at: http://www.census. gov/hhes/www/hlthins/data/utilization/tables.html. Accessed November 20, 2013.
20. Koroukian SM, Bakaki PM, Raghavan D,. Survival disparities by Medicaid status: an analysis of 8 cancers. Cancer. 2012; 118: 4271-4279.
21. Shiels MS, Engels EA, Linet MS, et al. The epidemic of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the United States: disentangling the effect of HIV, 1992-2009. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2013; 22: 1069-1078.
22. Klabunde CN, Harlan LC, Warren JL,. Data sources for measuring comorbidity: a comparison of hospital records and Medicare claims for cancer patients. Med Care. 2006; 44: 921-928.
23. D'Hoore W, Bouckaert A, Tilquin C,. Practical considerations on the use of the Charlson comorbidity index with administrative data bases. J Clin Epidemiol. 1996; 49: 1429-1433.
24. Romano PS, Roos LL, Jollis JG,. Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative data: differing perspectives. J Clin Epidemiol. 1993; 46: 1075-1079; discussion 1081-1090.
25. Sundararajan V, Quan H, Halfon P, et al. Cross-national comparative performance of 3 versions of the ICD-10 Charlson index. Med Care. 2007; 45: 1210-1215.
26. Northridge ME, Sclar ED, Biswas P,. Sorting out the connections between the built environment and health: a conceptual framework for navigating pathways and planning healthy cities. J Urban Health. 2003; 80: 556-568.
27. Warnecke RB, Oh A, Breen N, et al. Approaching health disparities from a population perspective: the National Institutes of Health Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities. Am J Public Health. 2008; 98: 1608-1615.
28. Hay KA, Lee B, Goktepe O, et al. Impact of time from diagnosis to initiation of curative chemotherapy on survival of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) [abstract]. J Clin Oncol. 2013; 31 (supp l). Abstract 8552.
29. Flowers CR, Shenoy PJ, Borate U, et al. Examining racial differences in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma presentation and survival. Leuk Lymphoma. 2013; 54: 268-276.