Abstract
647 Background: Providing state and regional cancer treatment prognoses, and comparing them over time are important for both local patients and physicians. The present study is the first in Nebraska, US to compare the change in prognostic factors for five-year survival of CC patients to those of RC patients from two time periods, 1991-1994 to 2001-2005. Methods: CC and RC Patients aged 19 years and older were selected from the Nebraska Cancer Registry the two time periods. The outcome variable was five-year survival (survived or not) from the date of diagnosis up to five years or more. Treatment was divided into five groups: surgery alone, surgery with chemotherapy and radiation therapy (S+CT+RT), surgery with chemotherapy (S+CT), other treatments, and no treatment. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to examine the effect of prognostic factors on five-year survival. Results: There was a 7% five-year survival improvement in RC patients from time 1 to time 2 but no survival improvement in CC patients. Younger age, female, being married, and early stage at diagnosis were associated with CC survival advantage in time 1 and time 2. In contrast, for RC patients, female had no survival advantage in time 2 while those in the 65-74 age group showed improved survival with time. With regard to treatment, surgery alone was the most consistent prognostic factor through time, while S+ CT+RT became the most important prognostic factor for survival in RC in time 2, and S+CT became the most important prognostic factor for survival in CC in time 2. Conclusions: There was marked change in treatment modalities for both CC and RC patients between the 1991-1995 and 2001-2005 periods, with a general trend toward better five-year survival prognosis. The most effective treatments for CC and RC patients in the most recent period are Surg+CT and S+CT+RT, respectively.
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