African Americans and Prostate Cancer: A Spatial and Multilevel Analysis of Post-treatment Care and Outcomes
Abstract
This report covers the first year of a two year effort to assess racial disparities in the post-treatment care and outcomes of prostate cancer. During this reporting period, the research team successfully acquired the SEER-Medicare database files, including the restricted census tract variable, for incident prostate cancer cases diagnosed between 1995 and 2002 for all 14 SEER cancer registries. From this data file, 2 geocoded prostate cancer data sets were developed: one with all cases in the SEER-Medicare data set, and a second that included only cases where the patient was 66 years of age or older at the time of diagnosis. A geographical information system (GIS) was developed using the cartographic boundary files and area-level demographic and socioeconomic measures data files available through the U.S. Census Bureau. The research team is currently integrating the spatially-referenced variables from the SEER-Medicare prostate cancer data sets into the GIS, and is preparing the data for statistical spatial clustering analyses and multilevel modeling.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA502564
Entities
People
- George J. Stukenborg
- Kristen M. Wells
- Oliver M. Norman
Organizations
- University of Virginia