Date of Conferral
2015
Degree
Ph.D.
School
Public Health
Advisor
Shanna L. Barnett
Abstract
Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a hematologic malignancy that accounts for approximately 1% of all adult cancers. This study investigated the impact of patient distance traveled to MM care sites, which was not considered in previous research on any disease-specific staging or prognostic schema despite evidence suggesting that distance impacts patient outcome. This study investigated the impact of patient distance from the site of care on survival outcomes using a group of 480 clinical trial participants. Andersen's behavioral model of health services use functioned as the theoretical model for this study. The independent variable was patient travel distance, controlling for established measures of risk, including ISS Stage and Gene Expression Profiling based risk stratification. A Cox proportional hazard model was used to analyze time to progression and/or death outcome. Analysis revealed that patients who lived-?¥ 121 miles. When controlling for ISS Stage and GEP risk, participants who lived-?¥ 121 miles. Participants aged -?¥ 65 years who lived-?¥ 121 miles. Statistically significant results (p =
Recommended Citation
Miller, Scott Edward Bowman, "Survival Analysis of Total Therapy 3 in Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma" (2015). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 1729.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1729
