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Place of residence and primary treatment of prostate cancer: examining trends in rural and nonrural areas in Wisconsin. Urology 2013 Mar;81(3):540-6

Date

01/22/2013

Pubmed ID

23332992

Pubmed Central ID

PMC6693871

DOI

10.1016/j.urology.2012.09.058

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-84875368995 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   14 Citations

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether rural residents were at a disadvantage compared with urban residents with regard to the receipt of curative therapy for prostate cancer.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Using the Breast and Prostate Cancer Data Quality and Patterns of Care Study II, patients with prostate cancer who were diagnosed in 2004 were identified. Registrars reviewed the medical records of randomly selected patients with incident prostate cancer (n = 1906). The patients' residential address was geocoded and linked to the census tract from the 2000 U.S. Census. The place of residence was defined as rural or nonrural according to the census tract and rural-urban commuting area categorization. The distance from the residence to the nearest radiation oncology facility was calculated. The odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals associated with receipt of noncurative treatment was calculated from logistic regression models and adjusted for several potential confounders.

RESULTS: Of the incident patients, 39.1% lived in urban census tracts, 41.5% lived in mixed tracts, and 19.4% lived in rural tracts. Hormone-only or active surveillance was received by 15.4% of the patients. Relative to the urban patients, the odds ratio for noncurative treatment was 1.01 (95% confidence interval 0.59-1.74) for those living in mixed tracts and 0.96 (95% confidence interval 0.52-1.77) for those living in rural tracts. No association was found for noncurative treatment according to the Rural-Urban Commuting Area categorization. The linear trend was null between noncurative treatment and the distance to nearest radiation oncology facility (P = .92).

CONCLUSION: The choice of curative treatment did not significantly depend on the patient's place of residence, suggesting a lack of geographic disparity for the primary treatment of prostate cancer.

Author List

Cetnar JP, Hampton JM, Williamson AA, Downs T, Wang D, Owen JB, Crouse B, Jones N, Wilson JF, Trentham-Dietz A

Author

J Frank Wilson MD Professor Emeritus in the Radiation Oncology department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Adult
Aged
Delivery of Health Care
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Prostatic Neoplasms
Residence Characteristics
Rural Health
Urban Health
Wisconsin
Young Adult