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Determinants of Mortality Following a Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer in Veterans Affairs and Private Sector Health Care Systems

Vincent L. Freeman, MD, MPH, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, PhD, Ahsan M. Arozullah, MD, MPH and LaShon C. Keys, MEd, RD

Vincent L. Freeman is with the Edward Hines Jr VA Hospital, Hines, Ill. and with the Dept of Medicine and Urology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Ill. Ramon Durazo-Arvizu is with the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill. and with the West Side VA Medical Center, Chicago, Ill. Ahsan M. Arozullah is with the University of Illinois at Chicago. LaShon C. Keys is with the Illinois Department of Human Services, Tinley Park.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Kaplan–Meier survival distributions by race and by comorbidity level.

 


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  		FIGURE 2—— Bootstrap confidence intervals for all-cause mortality rates of Blacks relative to Whites, by Charlson comorbidity score.

Note. VA = Department of Veterans Affairs. Estimates are adjusted for age, tumor stage, tumor differentiation, and treatment.

*P < .05.

 




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