Prostate cancer disparities by race and ethnicity: from nucleotide to neighborhood

TR Rebbeck - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Prostate cancer (CaP) incidence, morbidity, and mortality rates vary substantially by race
and ethnicity, with African American men experiencing among the highest CaP rates in the …

Endoscopic resection of high-risk T1 colorectal carcinoma prior to surgical resection has no adverse effect on long-term outcomes

A Overwater, K Kessels, SG Elias, Y Backes… - Gut, 2018 - gut.bmj.com
Objective It is difficult to predict the presence of histological risk factors for lymph node
metastasis (LNM) before endoscopic treatment of T1 colorectal cancer (CRC). Therefore …

Patient‐reported comorbidity and survival in older adults with cancer

GR Williams, AM Deal, JL Lund, YK Chang… - The …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Our ability to optimize the care of older adults with cancer and comorbid
illnesses is insufficient because most clinical trials lack systematic measurement. The …

Adapting the Elixhauser comorbidity index for cancer patients

HB Mehta, SD Sura, D Adhikari, CR Andersen… - Cancer, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND This study was designed to adapt the Elixhauser comorbidity index for 4
cancer‐specific populations (breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal) and compare 3 versions …

Type I versus type II endometrial cancer: Differential impact of comorbidity

MC Noer, SL Antonsen, B Ottesen… - International Journal of …, 2018 - ijgc.bmj.com
Objective Two distinct types of endometrial carcinoma (EC) with different etiology, tumor
characteristics, and prognosis are recognized. We investigated if the prognostic impact of …

Perceived acceptability and preferences for low-intensity early activity interventions of older hospitalized medical patients exposed to bed rest: a cross sectional study

MT Fox, S Sidani, D Brooks, H McCague - BMC geriatrics, 2018 - Springer
Background Hospitalized older patients spend most of their time in bed, putting them at risk
of experiencing orthostatic intolerance. Returning persons to their usual upright activity level …

Investigation of the international comparability of population-based routine hospital data set derived comorbidity scores for patients with lung cancer

M Lüchtenborg, EJA Morris, D Tataru, VH Coupland… - Thorax, 2018 - thorax.bmj.com
Introduction The International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) identified significant
international differences in lung cancer survival. Differing levels of comorbid disease across …

Use of health insurance data to identify and quantify the prevalence of main comorbidities in lung cancer patients

D Jegou, C Dubois, V Schillemans, S Stordeur… - Lung Cancer, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Identifying comorbidities in lung cancer patients is a complex process in
population-based studies and no gold standard exists. The current study aims to identify and …

[PDF][PDF] Вызовы и перспективы профилактической медицины на уровне первичного звена

ОМ Драпкина, ИВ Самородская… - Profilakticheskaya …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Увеличение продолжительности жизни сопровождается нарастанием числа лиц,
страдающих несколькими хроническими заболеваниями, что ассоциируется с высоким …

The M3 multimorbidity index outperformed both Charlson and Elixhauser indices when predicting adverse outcomes in people with diabetes

JK Gurney, J Stanley, D Sarfati - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives Multimorbidity is common among those living with diabetes. The purpose of this
manuscript was to assess the performance of the recently developed M3 multimorbidity …