%0 Journal Article
%T Comparison of anal cancer outcomes in public and private hospital patients treated at a single radiation oncology center
%A Bitterman, Danielle S.
%A Grew, David
%A Gu, Ping
%A Cohen, Richard F.
%A Sanfilippo, Nicholas J.
%A Leichman, Cynthia G.
%A Leichman, Lawrence P.
%A Moore, Harvey G.
%A Gold, Heather T.
%A Du, Kevin L.
%J Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology
%D 2015
%B 2015
%9 
%! Comparison of anal cancer outcomes in public and private hospital patients treated at a single radiation oncology center
%K 
%X Objective: To compare clinical and treatment characteristics and outcomes in locally advanced anal cancer, a potentially curable disease, in patients referred from a public or private hospital.   Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 112 anal cancer patients from a public and a private hospital who received definitive chemoradiotherapy at the same cancer center between 2004 and 2013. Tumor stage, radiotherapy delay, radiotherapy duration, and unplanned treatment breaks ≥10 days were compared using t-test and χ2 test. Overall survival (OS), disease free survival (DFS), and colostomy free survival (CFS) were examined using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared with the log-rank test. Cox proportional hazard models for OS and DFS were developed.   Results: The follow-up was 14.9 months (range, 0.7-94.8 months). Public hospital patients presented with significantly higher clinical T stage (P
%U https://jgo.amegroups.org/article/view/4407
%V 6
%N 5
%P 524-533
%@ 2219-679X