Andrew Ta, Supreet Kaur, Michael Mader, Kathleen Franklin, Madison Williams, Ryan Williams, Jean-Pierre Blaize, Amna Naqvi, Snegha Ananth, Michael Song, Brian Oliver Warnecke, Abhishek Pandya, Lakene Raissa Djoufack Djoumessi, Phillip Nazarewicz, Manuel Espinoza-Gutarra, Kana Tai Lucero, Jennifer Whitehead, Alaq Al-Abayechi, Lauren Boyle, Sophia Lee, Gabriel Roman Souza, Esteban Toro Velez, Ian Mines, Zohra Nooruddin
We performed a retrospective chart review of 6266 randomly selected DLBCL patients treated in the VHA nationwide between 1/1/2011 and 12/31/2021. The 3178 patients who met inclusion criteria were predominantly male (97%) and white (75%). Median age of diagnosis for Black patients was 63 years vs 69 years for the entire cohort ( p < 0.001). However, patients in each race/ethnicity subgroup presented with similar rates of stage I/II and III/IV disease, IPI score, cell of origin and HIT status...
April 15, 2024: Leukemia & Lymphoma