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. 2021 Feb 10;36:100716. doi: 10.1016/j.gore.2021.100716

Table 1.

Rate of fertility services among male reproductive-aged cancer patients.

Entire Cohort
Fertility Service^
N % N % P-value aRR (95%CI)#
All 3648 100.0 340 9.3
Age (years) <0.0001
 ≤35 2389 40.4 274 11.5 1.76 (1.33, 2.34)**
 36–40 1259 21.3 66 5.2 Referent
Cancer <0.0001
 Testicular Cancer 2610 71.6 302 11.6 3.31 (2.22, 4.92)**
 Colorectal Cancer 939 25.7 32 3.4 Referent
 Prostate Cancer 99 2.7 6 6.1 3.14 (1.28, 7.70)*
Health insurance <0.0001
 Medicaid 285 7.8 2 0.7 Referent
 Commercial 3363 92.2 338 10.1 11.58 (2.10, 63.69)*
Region <0.0001
 Northeast 622 17.1 100 16.1 1.85 (1.41, 2.45)**
 North Central 783 21.5 87 11.1 1.30 (0.98, 1.74)
 South 1209 33.1 104 8.6 Referent
 West 694 19.0 43 6.2 0.65 (0.45, 0.92)*
 Unknown 340 9.3 6 1.8 0.38 (0.08, 1.70)
MSA <0.0001
 No 418 11.5 31 7.4 Referent
 Yes 2881 79.0 300 10.4 1.36 (0.94, 1.97)
 Unknown 349 9.6 9 2.6 3.08 (0.94, 10.06)
Elixhauser comorbidity 0.0133
 0 3121 85.6 309 9.9 Referent
 1 348 9.5 20 5.8 0.80 (0.51, 1.27)
 ≥2 179 4.9 11 6.2 1.10 (0.59, 2.03)
Year of surgery 0.0963
 2008–2009 644 17.7 52 8.1 Referent
 2010–2011 881 24.2 81 9.2 1.07 (0.76, 1.52)
 2012–2013 886 24.3 70 7.9 0.96 (0.67, 1.38)
 2014–2015 742 20.3 81 10.9 1.34 (0.94, 1.91)
 2016–2017 495 13.6 56 11.3 1.49 (1.01, 2.20)*
Radiotherapy 0.1664
 No 2865 78.5 277 9.7 Referent
 Yes 783 21.5 63 8.1 1.30 (0.98, 1.73)
Chemotherapy 0.0022
 No 1866 51.2 147 7.9 Referent
 Yes 1782 48.9 193 10.8 1.81 (1.45, 2.27)**
^

Fertility evaluation 4.1%, fertility preservation 7.8%. Some patients (2.6%) had both fertility evaluation and preservation.

#

aRR: Adjusted risk ratio from multivariable log-linear model.

*

P-value < 0.05.

**

P-value < 0.0001.