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To examine geographic variation in survival time of men diagnosed with prostate cancer, adjusted for patient and disease characteristics.Survival times for a geographically referenced database of 27,189 incident prostate cancer cases (ICD-O-2: C61.9) from Connecticut, 1984–1998, were evaluated using a newly developed extension of the spatial scan statistic for survival data.Statewide, median survival...
Background. This research explores area-level social influences on prostate cancer, to test whether area-level influences explain disparities in U.S. prostate cancer burden.Methods. The authors geocoded 23,993 1992-1997 Maryland prostate cancer cases, and linked cases to 1990 census data. The authors examined the effect of 17 area-level social variables, measured at block group, tract, and county,...
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