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Individual- and neighborhood-level education influences the effect of obesity on prostate cancer treatment failure after prostatectomy
- Source :
- Cancer Causes & Control
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- Purpose The relationship between obesity and prostate cancer (CaP) treatment failure is complex and may vary by patient- and neighborhood-level educational attainment. We evaluated whether patient- and neighborhood-level education is associated with the effect of obesity on biochemical recurrence. Methods Seven hundred and forty-six CaP cases were classified into four groups: Concordant Low–Low: less educated cases (
- Subjects :
- Male
Biochemical recurrence
Gerontology
Oncology
Cross-level interaction
Neighborhood SES
Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Treatment failure
Education
Prostate cancer
Residence Characteristics
Internal medicine
Epidemiology
Humans
Medicine
Obesity
Treatment Failure
Aged
Prostatectomy
Original Paper
business.industry
Public health
Prostatic Neoplasms
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Educational attainment
3. Good health
Disease Progression
Educational Status
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15737225 and 09575243
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cancer Causes & Control
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d47cfc856c1a87b4d699981d2b648541
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-015-0628-y