Cancer incidence and etiology in the active duty population of US Military

LA Lovejoy, CD Shriver, RE Ellsworth - Military Medicine, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Introduction As members of the military, all active duty service members (ADS) must meet
physical fitness requirements and are provided with equal-access healthcare through the …

Racial disparities in the surgical treatment of clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer among veterans

BT Heiden, DB Eaton Jr, SH Chang, Y Yan… - Chest, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Prior studies in the civilian population have reported racial disparities in lung
cancer outcomes following surgical treatment, including inferior quality of care and worse …

[HTML][HTML] Racial and ethnic differences in tumor characteristics among endometrial cancer patients in an equal-access healthcare population

D Desmond, Z Arter, JL Berenberg, JL Killeen… - Cancer Causes & …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose There are racial and ethnic differences in endometrial cancer incidence and
mortality rates; compared with Non-Hispanic White women, Black women have a similar …

Disparities in systemic treatment use in advanced-stage non–small cell lung cancer by source of health insurance

FB Maguire, CR Morris, A Parikh-Patel, RD Cress… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2019 - AACR
Background: Management of advanced-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has
changed significantly over the past two decades with the development of numerous systemic …

[PDF][PDF] Proteogenomic analysis of lung adenocarcinoma reveals tumor heterogeneity, survival determinants, and therapeutically relevant pathways

AR Soltis, NW Bateman, J Liu, T Nguyen, TJ Franks… - Cell reports …, 2022 - cell.com
We present a deep proteogenomic profiling study of 87 lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD)
tumors from the United States, integrating whole-genome sequencing, transcriptome …

Survival among patients with glioma in the US Military Health System: A comparison with patients in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program

J Lin, JA Bytnar, BJ Theeler, KA McGlynn, CD Shriver… - Cancer, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Glioma is the most common malignant brain cancer. Accessibility to health care
is an important factor affecting cancer outcomes in the US general population. The US …

Racial differences in treatment and survival among veterans and non-veterans with stage I NSCLC: an evaluation of Veterans Affairs and SEER-Medicare populations

CD Williams, N Alpert, TS Redding IV, AJ Bullard… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2020 - AACR
Background: Surgery is the preferred treatment for stage I non–small cell lung cancer
(NSCLC), with radiation reserved for those not receiving surgery. Previous studies have …

Five-year survival of patients with late-stage prostate cancer: comparison of the Military Health System and the US general population

J Lin, D Nousome, J Jiang, GT Chesnut… - British journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Background While the 5-year survival rate for local and regional prostate cancer is nearly
100%, it decreases dramatically for advanced tumours. Accessibility to health care is an …

Survival among breast cancer patients: comparison of the US military health system with the surveillance, epidemiology and end results program

J Lin, H Hu, CD Shriver, K Zhu - Clinical breast cancer, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Accessibility to health care is important to cancer survival. The US military
health system (MHS) provides universal health care access. However, whether the universal …

Comparative trends in the distribution of lung cancer stage at diagnosis in the Department of Defense Cancer Registry and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End …

JA Nations, DW Brown, S Shao, CD Shriver… - Military …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Introduction We compared the stage at diagnosis for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
patients in the military healthcare system (MHS) and the general public to assess differences …