Comparative effectiveness of prostate cancer treatments: evaluating statistical adjustments for confounding in observational data

J Hadley, KR Yabroff, MJ Barrett… - Journal of the …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background Using observational data to assess the relative effectiveness of alternative
cancer treatments is limited by patient selection into treatment, which often biases …

The demographic burden of urologic diseases in America

DC Miller, CS Saigal, MS Litwin - Urologic Clinics of North America, 2009 - Elsevier
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases initiated the Urologic
Diseases in America project in 2001 with the goal of quantifying the immense demographic …

Prevalence of kidney stones in the United States

CD Scales Jr, AC Smith, JM Hanley, CS Saigal… - European urology, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The last nationally representative assessment of kidney stone prevalence
in the United States occurred in 1994. After a 13-yr hiatus, the National Health and Nutrition …

[HTML][HTML] Quality of life and satisfaction with outcome among prostate-cancer survivors

MG Sanda, RL Dunn, J Michalski… - … England Journal of …, 2008 - Mass Medical Soc
Background We sought to identify determinants of health-related quality of life after primary
treatment of prostate cancer and to measure the effects of such determinants on satisfaction …

Androgen deprivation therapy increases cardiovascular morbidity in men with prostate cancer

CS Saigal, JL Gore, TL Krupski… - … Journal of the …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND. The use of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in the treatment of men
with prostate cancer has risen sharply. Although cardiovascular disease is the most common …

[HTML][HTML] Direct and indirect costs of nephrolithiasis in an employed population: opportunity for disease management?

CS Saigal, G Joyce, AR Timilsina… - Kidney international, 2005 - Elsevier
Direct and indirect costs of nephrolithiasis in an employed population: Opportunity for
disease management? Background More than 5% of the United States population has been …

Predictors and prevalence of erectile dysfunction in a racially diverse population

CS Saigal, H Wessells, J Pace… - Archives of internal …, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
Background To our knowledge, the burden of disease attributed to erectile dysfunction (ED)
has not been adequately quantified across a complete spectrum of age and race using a …

Recurrence of high‐risk bladder cancer: a population‐based analysis

K Chamie, MS Litwin, JC Bassett, TJ Daskivich, J Lai… - Cancer, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Patients with bladder cancer are apt to develop multiple recurrences that
require intervention. The recurrence, progression, and bladder cancer–related mortality …

Prediction of erectile function following treatment for prostate cancer

M Alemozaffar, MM Regan, MR Cooperberg, JT Wei… - Jama, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Context Sexual function is the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) domain most commonly
impaired after prostate cancer treatment; however, validated tools to enable personalized …

Renal and cardiovascular morbidity after partial or radical nephrectomy

DC Miller, M Schonlau, MS Litwin, J Lai… - … Journal of the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND. To clarify the benefits of nephron‐sparing surgery among patients with
early‐stage kidney cancer, the authors compared the frequency of renal and cardiovascular …