ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2012
Disparities in short-term and long-term all-cause mortality among Korean cancer patients with and without preexisting disabilities: a nationwide retrospective cohort study.
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- Do people with disabilities experience disparities in cancer care? A systematic review.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Unmet Supportive Care Needs, Barriers, and Facilitators for People with Physical Disabilities and Cancer.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Review
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- Disparities in All-Cause Mortality in Older Patients with Colorectal Cancer According to Disability Status: A Nationwide Analysis.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Article
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- Improving risk prediction for depression via Elastic Net regression - Results from Korea National Health Insurance Services Data.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2016Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study was conducted in order to determine whether a gap exists between cancer patients with disabilities and those without disabilities with regard to short-term and long-term all-cause mortality in Korea.
methodThe National Health Insurance claims database and the National Disability Database were used for performance of analyses. We identified 93,758 cancer patients (age, >20 years) who were diagnosed as cancer according to ICD-10 and who underwent treatment between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2000. To distinguish between short-term and long-term survivorship outcomes, we performed survival analysis of short-term (<5 years) all-cause mortality for cancer patients and then confined our analysis to 5-year cancer survivors in order to assess the impacts of disability on long-term all-cause mortality. All analyses were performed according to gender, type of cancer, and type of disability, respectively, when cell sizes were large enough.
resultsCompared with the nondisability group, neither male nor female cancer patients with disabilities showed higher short-term (<5 years) all-cause mortality. When we confined our analysis to 5-year cancer survivors, both male (hazards ratio (HR), 1.48; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.33-1.66) and female (HR, 1.53; 95% CI, 1.28-1.83) patients with prediagnosis disability had higher long-term all-cause mortality than those in the nondisability group. Male patients with impaired communication (HR, 1.24; 95% CI, 1.07-1.44) and female patients with internal disability (HR, 2.20; 95% CI, 1.42-3.42) had higher short-term (<5 years) all-cause mortality than those without these disabilities. Among both male (HR, 1.56; 95% CI, 1.38-1.75) and female (HR, 1.54; 95% CI, 1.28-1.86) 5-year cancer survivors, impaired mobility showed a significant association with a higher long-term mortality.
conclusionsThis study raises concerns with regard to disability-related disparities in cancer outcome among long-term cancer survivors. Further attention and effective collaborative efforts are required for improvement of survival and quality of care for long-term cancer survivors.
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