2025
Area Level Social Deprivation and Use of Prostate MRI Before Prostate Biopsy Among Commercial Insurance Beneficiaries
Smani S, Wang R, Zhou X, Sprenkle P, Kim I, Dinan M, Gross C, Ma X, Leapman M. Area Level Social Deprivation and Use of Prostate MRI Before Prostate Biopsy Among Commercial Insurance Beneficiaries. Urology 2025 PMID: 40759400, DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2025.07.070.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPre-biopsy magnetic resonance imagingProstate magnetic resonance imagingMagnetic resonance imagingMagnetic resonance imaging useProstate biopsySocial deprivation indexArea-level measuresDynamic cohort studyMRI useMeasure of area-level deprivationSocioeconomic statusArea-level social deprivationArea-level measures of socioeconomic statusMeasures of socioeconomic statusStrata of socioeconomic statusArea-level deprivationCommercial insurance beneficiariesComposite measureBiopsyProstateNon-metropolitan areasDeprivation indexRural/urban statusResonance imagingSociodemographic factors
2022
Mediators of Racial Disparity in the Use of Prostate Magnetic Resonance Imaging Among Patients With Prostate Cancer
Leapman MS, Dinan M, Pasha S, Long J, Washington SL, Ma X, Gross CP. Mediators of Racial Disparity in the Use of Prostate Magnetic Resonance Imaging Among Patients With Prostate Cancer. JAMA Oncology 2022, 8: 687-696. PMID: 35238879, PMCID: PMC8895315, DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.8116.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProstate magnetic resonance imagingMagnetic resonance imagingPopulation-based cohort studyProstate cancerWhite patientsRacial disparitiesCohort studyMRI useIndividual-level socioeconomic statusEligible male patientsSocioeconomic statusNeighborhood-level socioeconomic statusLocalized prostate cancerProstate cancer diagnosisObserved racial disparitiesProstate magnetic resonanceMediation analysisPathologic factorsMale patientsUS SurveillanceBlack patientsMedicare databaseMAIN OUTCOMEUS adultsNew diagnosis
2021
Analysis of Sociodemographic, Clinical, and Genomic Factors Associated With Breast Cancer Mortality in the Linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results and Medicare Database
Robinson TJ, Wilson LE, Marcom PK, Troester M, Lynch CF, Hernandez BY, Parrilla E, Brauer HA, Dinan MA. Analysis of Sociodemographic, Clinical, and Genomic Factors Associated With Breast Cancer Mortality in the Linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results and Medicare Database. JAMA Network Open 2021, 4: e2131020. PMID: 34714340, PMCID: PMC8556625, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.31020.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsResidual tissue repositoryBreast cancer outcomesSEER-Medicare dataCancer outcomesCox proportional hazards regression modelHealth servicesEstrogen receptor-positive invasive breast cancerSymptomatic detectionBreast cancer-specific survivalPopulation-based cohort studyEstrogen receptor-positive tumorsProportional hazards regression modelsExploratory genomic analysisSEER-Medicare cohortCancer-specific survivalSocioeconomic statusHigh-grade diseaseInvasive breast cancerReceptor-positive tumorsSubset of womenBreast cancer mortalityAdvanced disease stageHazards regression modelsClaims-based algorithmGrowth factor β activation
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