9
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Socioeconomic status is independently associated with overall survival in patients with multiple myeloma.

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPMC
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Population-based studies suggest that black patients with multiple myeloma (MM) have a higher mortality rate than white patients. However, other studies suggest that this disparity is related to socioeconomic status (SES) rather than race. To provide clarity on this topic, we reviewed 562 patients diagnosed with MM at our institution. Patients with high SES had a median overall survival (OS) of 62.8 months (95% confidence interval [CI] 43.1-82.6 months), compared to 53.7 months (45.2-62.3 months) and 48.6 months (40.4-56.8 months) for middle and low SES, respectively (p = 0.015). After controlling for race, age, year of diagnosis, severity of comorbidities, stem cell transplant utilization and insurance provider, patients with low SES had a 54% increase in mortality rate relative to patients with high SES. To support our findings, we performed a similar analysis of 45,505 patients with MM from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results-18 (SEER) database. Low SES is independently associated with poorer OS in MM.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          Leuk. Lymphoma
          Leukemia & lymphoma
          Informa UK Limited
          1029-2403
          1026-8022
          2015
          : 56
          : 9
          Affiliations
          [1 ] a Division of Oncology , Washington University School of Medicine , St. Louis , MO , USA.
          [2 ] b Division of Biostatistics, Department of Medicine , Washington University School of Medicine , St. Louis , MO , USA.
          Article
          NIHMS768140
          10.3109/10428194.2015.1011156
          4831207
          25651424
          f3181ecb-6e0d-43e1-b4cf-1038c20d5ee3
          History

          cancer health disparities,race,socioeconomic status,Multiple myeloma

          Comments

          Comment on this article