Impact of serious mental illness on the treatment and mortality of older patients with locoregional high-grade (nonmetastatic) prostate cancer: retrospective cohort analysis of 49 985 SEER-Medicare patients diagnosed between 2006 and 2013.
Dennis A FriedHossein Sadeghi-NejadDian GuShouhao ZhouWeiguo HeSharon H GiordanoSri Ram PentakotaKitaw DemissieDrew HelmerChan ShenPublished in: Cancer medicine (2019)
Among SEER-Medicare patients with locoregional high-grade (nonmetastatic) prostate cancer, those with preexisting SMI-relative to those without these conditions-were less likely to receive definitive initial treatment in the year after diagnosis and had poorer cancer-specific survival 5 years after diagnosis.
Keyphrases
- prostate cancer
- high grade
- mental illness
- radical prostatectomy
- low grade
- end stage renal disease
- mental health
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- type diabetes
- healthcare
- cross sectional
- squamous cell carcinoma
- prognostic factors
- papillary thyroid
- radiation therapy
- coronary artery disease
- young adults
- affordable care act
- health insurance
- squamous cell