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22/Apr/2025
22/Apr/2025
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2025AO0851
Highlights ■ Men with metastatic prostate cancer in the public system have access to fewer treatment lines. ■ Survival in the public system was 3 years shorter than that in the private setting (78 versus 115 months). ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the impact of assistance from public and private health systems on the overall survival of patients with metastatic prostate cancer. Methods: A total of 213 patients with metastatic prostate cancer treated at the A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, either in […]
Keywords: Brazil; Health Services; Health systems; Neoplasm metastasis; Private sector; Prostatic neoplasms; Public sector; Race factors; Social determinants of health; Survival analysis