A population-based study of lung carcinoma in Pennsylvania: comparison of Veterans Administration and civilian populations.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Lung carcinoma remains the major cause of cancer death in North America and is even more common among military veterans. The objective of this study was to determine whether there were differences in the characteristics and survival of Pennsylvania patients with lung carcinoma in the Veterans Administration (VA) hospital system compared with patients in the rest of the state. METHODS:The Pennsylvania Cancer Registry was used to identify all patients who were diagnosed with lung carcinoma in the State of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 1999. Patients who were treated within the Veterans Administration Health Care Network were identified by hospital code. Survival from the date of diagnosis of lung carcinoma was determined by using the Pennsylvania state mortality files from 1995 to 2001. RESULTS:From 1995 to 1999, 48,994 patients were newly diagnosed with lung carcinoma in Pennsylvania (41.2% women), including 856 patients in the VA system (6 women). The current analysis was restricted to male patients (n = 28,798 men). There was no major difference in age of VA patients compared with non-VA patients, and the proportions of patients who had localized or regional stage disease were similar (49% of VA patients vs. 48% of non-VA patients). The proportion of black patients was much higher in the VA population (23%) compared with the non-VA population (9%). The median survival was 6.3 months for VA patients compared with 7.9 months for patients in the rest of the state, and the 5-year overall survival rate was 12% for VA patients compared with 15% for patients in the rest of the state. When survival was analyzed according to race, there was a significant difference in the age-adjusted survival of white patients in the VA system compared with patients in the rest of the state (P = 0.0007), but no significant difference was observed among black patients (P = 0.92). CONCLUSIONS:The overall survival of VA patients with lung carcinoma in Pennsylvania was inferior to that of patients in the remainder of the state and this was due primarily to differences in survival among the white patients. Further investigation will be necessary to determine whether this disparity was caused by differences in socioeconomic status or comorbidities or whether there are systematic differences in the diagnosis, staging, or treatment of lung carcinoma between VA patients and civilian patients.

journal_name

Cancer

journal_title

Cancer

authors

Campling BG,Hwang WT,Zhang J,Thompson S,Litzky LA,Vachani A,Rosen IM,Algazy KM

doi

10.1002/cncr.21228

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-08-15 00:00:00

pages

833-40

issue

4

eissn

0008-543X

issn

1097-0142

journal_volume

104

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