2024
Small Cell Bladder Cancer: Treatment Patterns for Local Disease and Associated Outcomes. A Retrospective Cohort Study
Bakaloudi D, Koehne E, Diamantopoulos L, Holt S, Sekar R, Ghali F, Vakar-Lopez F, Nyame Y, Psutka S, Gore J, de la Calle C, Lin D, Schade G, Liao J, Hsieh A, Yezefski T, Hawley J, Yu E, Montgomery R, Grivas P, Wright J. Small Cell Bladder Cancer: Treatment Patterns for Local Disease and Associated Outcomes. A Retrospective Cohort Study. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer 2024, 22: 102208. PMID: 39265260, DOI: 10.1016/j.clgc.2024.102208.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSmall cell bladder cancerConcurrent chemoradiotherapyNeoadjuvant chemotherapySEER-Medicare databaseMedian OSLocoregional therapySEER-MedicareBladder cancerHistological subtypesOverall survivalInstitutional databaseCompare outcomesOptimal locoregional therapyAggressive histologic subtypeNon-metastatic stageNon-metastatic diseaseSEER-Medicare datasetMultivariate Cox analysisFollow-up/deathLocalized diseaseCox analysisCystectomyTreatment patternsTreatment responseMultivariate analysis
2021
Evaluation of Insurance Coverage and Cancer Stage at Diagnosis Among Low-Income Adults With Renal Cell Carcinoma After Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Javier-DesLoges JF, Yuan J, Soliman S, Hakimi K, Meagher MF, Ghali F, Hsiang W, Patel DN, Kim SP, Murphy JD, Parsons JK, Derweesh IH. Evaluation of Insurance Coverage and Cancer Stage at Diagnosis Among Low-Income Adults With Renal Cell Carcinoma After Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. JAMA Network Open 2021, 4: e2116267. PMID: 34269808, PMCID: PMC8285737, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.16267.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLow-income patientsRenal cell carcinomaAffordable Care ActACA implementationNonexpansion statesLocalized diseaseAbsolute percentage changeCell carcinomaCancer stageExpansion statesNational Cancer DatabaseProportion of patientsRetrospective cohort analysisInsurance coveragePatient ProtectionCare ActMedicaid expansion statesInsurance coverage statusLow-income adultsEarly RCC detectionExpansion of insuranceSecondary outcomesInsurance statusAdjusted differenceCancer Database