Racial Differences in Financial Impact of Prostate Cancer Treatment and Outcome
Abstract
The North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (PCaP) used rapid case ascertainment in North Carolina (NC) and Louisiana (LA) to recruit 2258 research subjects with newly diagnosed prostate cancer (CaP); African Americans (AAs). Treatments received and oncological outcomes were gathered about 4 years later from 79 percent of research subjects enrolled in NC and 4.4 years later from 65 percent of research subjects enrolled in LA. Estimations based on that initial follow-up experience and actuarial assumptions suggest that information should be collectable from 1233 living PCaP research subjects and from the surviving family members about the impact of death from CaP in 110 (about 65 AAs and 45 CAs) versus another cause in 300 (about 150 of each race)family units, respectively. The central hypothesis is that the financial impact of CaP treatment and oncologic outcome differs between AAs and CAs newly diagnosed with CaP. LA State University School of Public Health Epidemiology Data Center (EDC) will contact all PCaP research subjects who provided consent for future contact (97 percent allowed future contact). Treatments received and oncologic outcome will be collected using PCaPs CaP Follow-up Form and QoL will be reassessed using the same validated instruments administered by PCaP at baseline and first re-contact. Current household income, treatment costs, QoL, financial distress and caregiver QoL and stress will be ascertained using validated questionnaires. EDC will obtain the pertinent medical records and abstract them using the PCaP Follow-up Medical Records Abstraction Database. Oncologic outcome will be displayed graphically for all LA research subjects and updated for all NC research subjects using the same methodology as used to produce oncologic outcome for NC research subjects. Mortality and cause of death information is obtained via the NC State Center for Health Statistics and the LA State Tumor Registry.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2021
- Accession Number
- AD1146829
Entities
People
- James L Mohler