Recognizing the emergency department's role in oncologic care: a review of the literature on unplanned acute care

RS Lash, AS Hong, JF Bell, SC Reed, N Pettit - Emergency Cancer Care, 2022 - Springer
Background The global prevalence of cancer is rapidly increasing and will increase the
acute care needs of patients with cancer, including emergency department (ED) care …

Prostate cancer disparities by race and ethnicity: from nucleotide to neighborhood

TR Rebbeck - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Prostate cancer (CaP) incidence, morbidity, and mortality rates vary substantially by race
and ethnicity, with African American men experiencing among the highest CaP rates in the …

Cancer statistics for African Americans, 2016: Progress and opportunities in reducing racial disparities

CE DeSantis, RL Siegel, AG Sauer… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, the American Cancer Society provides the estimated number of new cancer
cases and deaths for blacks in the United States and the most recent data on cancer …

An assessment of progress in cancer control

RL Siegel, A Jemal, RC Wender… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This article summarizes cancer mortality trends and disparities based on data from the
National Center for Health Statistics. It is the first in a series of articles that will describe the …

A systematic review of emergency department use among cancer patients

RS Lash, JF Bell, SC Reed, H Poghosyan… - Cancer …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background: Recent reports call for reductions in costly and potentially avoidable services
such as emergency department (ED) visits. Providing high-quality and safe care for …

Racial differences in the surgical care of Medicare beneficiaries with localized prostate cancer

M Schmid, CP Meyer, G Reznor, TK Choueiri… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is extensive evidence suggesting that black men with localized prostate
cancer (PCa) have worse cancer-specific mortality compared with their non-Hispanic white …

The American Cancer Society 2035 challenge goal on cancer mortality reduction

J Ma, A Jemal, SA Fedewa, F Islami… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A summary evaluation of the 2015 American Cancer Society (ACS) challenge goal showed
that overall US mortality from all cancers combined declined 26% over the period from 1990 …

Association between hospital competition and quality of prostate cancer care

R Jayadevappa, SB Malkowicz, N Vapiwala… - BMC Health Services …, 2023 - Springer
Background Hospitals account for approximately 6% of United States' gross domestic
product. We examined the association between hospital competition and outcomes in …

Prostate cancer registries: current status and future directions

G Gandaglia, F Bray, MR Cooperberg, RJ Karnes… - European urology, 2016 - Elsevier
Context Disease-specific registries that enroll a considerable number of patients play a
major role in prostate cancer (PCa) research. Objective To evaluate available registries …

Cohort profile: the TrueNTH Global Registry-an international registry to monitor and improve localised prostate cancer health outcomes

SM Evans, JL Millar, CM Moore, JD Lewis, H Huland… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Purpose Globally, prostate cancer treatment and outcomes for men vary according to where
they live, their race and the care they receive. The TrueNTH Global Registry project was …