TY - JOUR
T1 - Improved survival in multiple myeloma, with a diminishing racial gap and a widening socioeconomic status gap over three decades
AU - Sun, Tiantian
AU - Wang, Shuncong
AU - Sun, Huanhuan
AU - Wen, Jianguo
AU - An, Gang
AU - Li, Juan
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - Multiple myeloma (MM) is estimated to have 30,280 new cases and be associated with 12,590 deaths in 2017. However, quantitative analysis for survival, based on a large population, is lacking. Data were extracted from a total of 33,170 cases from nine registry sites in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. The current study shows that the incidence for MM remained relatively stable between 1981 and 2010, with 4.6, 4.7, and 4.7 per 100,000 persons in each decade. In addition, survival for MM improved each decade with a larger increment in the last two decades, with a narrowing survival gap among races and a widening gap among socioeconomic status (SES) groups. The survival gap changes in races and SES groups may guide clinicians to design better treatment protocols and call for the pressing need for health-care policy to fill the gap among SES groups.
AB - Multiple myeloma (MM) is estimated to have 30,280 new cases and be associated with 12,590 deaths in 2017. However, quantitative analysis for survival, based on a large population, is lacking. Data were extracted from a total of 33,170 cases from nine registry sites in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. The current study shows that the incidence for MM remained relatively stable between 1981 and 2010, with 4.6, 4.7, and 4.7 per 100,000 persons in each decade. In addition, survival for MM improved each decade with a larger increment in the last two decades, with a narrowing survival gap among races and a widening gap among socioeconomic status (SES) groups. The survival gap changes in races and SES groups may guide clinicians to design better treatment protocols and call for the pressing need for health-care policy to fill the gap among SES groups.
KW - incidence
KW - Multiple myeloma
KW - SEER
KW - socioeconomic status
KW - survival
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U2 - 10.1080/10428194.2017.1335398
DO - 10.1080/10428194.2017.1335398
M3 - Article
C2 - 28595471
AN - SCOPUS:85020624071
VL - 59
SP - 49
EP - 58
JO - Leukemia and Lymphoma
JF - Leukemia and Lymphoma
SN - 1042-8194
IS - 1
ER -