Racial Disparities in Patients with Stage IIIC Endometrial Cancer
Patrich T, Wang Y, Elshaikh M, Zhu S, Damast S, Li J, Fields E, Beriwal S, Keller A, Kidd E, Usoz M, Jolly S, Jaworski E, Leung E, Donovan E, Taunk N, Chino J, Russo A, Lea J, Lee L, Albuquerque K, Hathout L. Racial Disparities in Patients with Stage IIIC Endometrial Cancer. International Journal Of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics 2022, 114: e273-e274. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.07.1283.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPositive paraaortic lymph nodesNon-black patientsRecurrence-free survivalExternal beam radiation therapyStage IIIC endometrial carcinomaNon-endometrioid histologyGrade 3 tumorsLymphovascular space invasionOverall survivalBlack patientsVaginal cuff brachytherapyEndometrial carcinomaCervical involvementWorse OSHazard ratioPropensity scoreStage IIIC endometrial cancerMulti-institutional cohort studyRetrospective multi-institutional cohort studyCox proportional hazards modelRacial disparitiesParaaortic lymph nodesKaplan-Meier methodProportional hazards modelBeam radiation therapy