Atreya Dash|Peng Lee|Qin Zhou|Jerome Jean?Gilles|Samir S. Taneja|Jaya M. Satagopan|Victor E. Reuter|William L. Gerald|James A. Eastham|Iman Osman
Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Prostate Cancer Outcomes in Black Patients Treated with Surgery
New York University|New York University|New York University|New York University|New York University|New York University|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|New York University|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|New York University|New York University|New York University
role socioeconomic factors worse outcome black men prostate cancer remains unclear determine whether socioeconomic factors affect prostate cancer outcomes studied cohort black patients minimize known confounding factorswe studied black men treated radical prostatectomy new york veterans administration medical center memorial sloankettering cancer center 1990 2005 centralized pathology review process determined gleason score cases prostatespecific antigen psa recurrence sites defined psa 02 greater confirmatory rise matching patients home zip codes us census bureau database obtained corresponding socioeconomic data regarding median household income income percentage population high school degree analyzed income education clinical pathological parameters whole cohortwe studied 430 black patients resided neighborhoods median household income 4149810 mean percentage high school graduates 734 total 88 patients 209 psa recurrence median followup survivors 37 months neither income education evaluated continuous categorical variables predictors psa recurrence evaluated composite categorical variable combination greater income education predict diseasefree survivaldata suggest socioeconomic factors limited impact psa recurrence black men treated radical prostatectomy thus biologic factors might role poor outcomes population