Re: Racial Disparities in Cancer Survival among Randomized Clinical Trials of the Southwest Oncology Group

Citation

Trivers, Katrina F.; Messer, Lynne C.; & Kaufman, Jay S. (2010). Re: Racial Disparities in Cancer Survival among Randomized Clinical Trials of the Southwest Oncology Group. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 102(4), 278-279. PMCID: PMC3143432

Abstract

The recent analysis of Albain et al. suggests that African American patients with sex-specific cancers had worse survival than white patients, despite enrollment in Southwest Oncology Group phase III trials with uniform stage, treatment, and follow-up and after adjustment for socioeconomic status. However, there are a number of statistical and methodological approaches used that are inappropriate and render their analysis essentially uninterpretable.

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djp508

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2010

Journal Title

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Author(s)

Trivers, Katrina F.
Messer, Lynne C.
Kaufman, Jay S.

PMCID

PMC3143432