Epidemiological Determinants of Advanced Prostate Cancer in Elderly Men in the United States

In this study, we examined the effects of individual-level and area-level characteristics on advanced prostate cancer diagnosis among Medicare eligible older men (ages 70+ years). We analyzed patients from the linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database (2000-2007) li...

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Published in:	Clinical Medicine Insights. Oncology Vol. 13; p. 1179554919855116
Main Authors:	Jayasekera, Jinani, Onukwugha, Eberechukwu, Cadham, Christopher, Tom, Sarah, Harrington, Donna, Naslund, Michael
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London, England SAGE Publications 2019 Sage Publications Ltd SAGE Publishing
Subjects:	Beneficiaries Censuses Comorbidity Disease prevention Enrollments Epidemiology Health behavior Health maintenance organizations Health services HMOs Medical diagnosis Medical screening Medicare Metastasis Older people Original Research Prostate cancer Socioeconomic factors Surveillance United States > US stage at diagnosis geographic disparities health services supply index prostate cancer screening socioeconomic status index
ISSN:	1179-5549, 1179-5549
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