Authors
Khalid Y Alkhatib, John Pluta, Daniel Lee, Katherine L Nathanson, Linda A Jacobs, Thomas J Guzzo, Nabil Adra, Jourik A Gietema, David J Vaughn, Phillip M Pierorazio
Publication date
2024/6/1
Source
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Volume
42
Issue
16_suppl
Pages
5042-5042
Publisher
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Description
5042
Background: The focus of Testicular Cancer (TC) has shifted towards survivorship due to the high cure rates. With the increase in TC survivors population, long-term cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been suggested to be strongly linked with earlier treatment for TC by various hospital based small studies. As it is crucial to investigate this relationship at a population level to develop early prevention strategies to improve TC survivors' overall quality of life (QoL), we analyzed the U.S. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to describe the long-term outcomes of TC survivors in a real-world random population sample. Methods: Using BRFSS cycles between 2014 and 2022, we pulled all patients who reported having a history of TC and compared them to the rest of the men's population sample who had no history of cancer diagnosis. Using national complex weights, we estimated each group …