Predictive models of 1- and 3-year cancer-specific mortality as a function of cancer site in African American Medicare beneficiaries compared to Caucasian beneficiaries with an incident diagnosis of breast, lung, colon/rectal, or prostate cancer as identified in SEER-Medicare data from 1998–2002.
* Adjusted models include the covariates: age at diagnosis, sex, travel time to nearest NCI Cancer Center, predominance of primary care prior to diagnosis, stage, rurality, comorbidities, median household income for ZIP of residence at diagnosis, SEER registry of residence at diagnosis, and year of diagnosis.