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Colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis in migrants versus non-migrants (KoMigra): study protocol of a cross-sectional study in Germany

BACKGROUND: In Germany, about 20% of the total population have a migration background. Differences exist between migrants and non-migrants in terms of health care access and utilisation. Colorectal cancer is the second most common malignant tumour in Germany, and incidence, staging and survival chan...

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Autores principales: Dahlhaus, Anne, Guethlin, Corina, Schall, Arthur, Taubenroth, Maja, van Ewijk, Reyn, Zeeb, Hajo, Albay, Zeycan, Schulz-Rothe, Sylvia, Beyer, Martin, Gerlach, Ferdinand M, Blettner, Maria, Siebenhofer, Andrea
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3939398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24559172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-123
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author Dahlhaus, Anne
Guethlin, Corina
Schall, Arthur
Taubenroth, Maja
van Ewijk, Reyn
Zeeb, Hajo
Albay, Zeycan
Schulz-Rothe, Sylvia
Beyer, Martin
Gerlach, Ferdinand M
Blettner, Maria
Siebenhofer, Andrea
author_facet Dahlhaus, Anne
Guethlin, Corina
Schall, Arthur
Taubenroth, Maja
van Ewijk, Reyn
Zeeb, Hajo
Albay, Zeycan
Schulz-Rothe, Sylvia
Beyer, Martin
Gerlach, Ferdinand M
Blettner, Maria
Siebenhofer, Andrea
author_sort Dahlhaus, Anne
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: In Germany, about 20% of the total population have a migration background. Differences exist between migrants and non-migrants in terms of health care access and utilisation. Colorectal cancer is the second most common malignant tumour in Germany, and incidence, staging and survival chances depend, amongst other things, on ethnicity and lifestyle. The current study investigates whether stage at diagnosis differs between migrants and non-migrants with colorectal cancer in an area of high migration and attempts to identify factors that can explain any differences. METHODS/DESIGN: Data on tumour and migration status will be collected for 1,200 consecutive patients that have received a new, histologically verified diagnosis of colorectal cancer in a high migration area in Germany in the previous three months. The recruitment process is expected to take 16 months and will include gastroenterological private practices and certified centres for intestinal diseases. Descriptive and analytical analysis will be performed: the distribution of variables for migrants versus non-migrants and participants versus non-participants will be analysed using appropriate χ2-, t-, F- or Wilcoxon tests. Multivariable, logistic regression models will be performed, with the dependent variable being the dichotomized stage of the tumour (UICC stage I versus more advanced than UICC stage I). Odds ratios and associated 95%-confidence intervals will be calculated. Furthermore, ordered logistic regression models will be estimated, with the exact stage of the tumour at diagnosis as the dependent variable. Predictors used in the ordered logistic regression will be patient characteristics that are specific to migrants as well as patient characteristics that are not. Interaction models will be estimated in order to investigate whether the effects of patient characteristics on stage of tumour at the time of the initial diagnosis is different in migrants, compared to non-migrants. DISCUSSION: An association of migration status or other socioeconomic variables with stage at diagnosis of colorectal cancer would be an important finding with respect to equal health care access among migrants. It would point to access barriers or different symptom appraisal and, in the long term, could contribute to the development of new health care concepts for migrants. TRIAL REGISTRATION: German Clinical Trials Register DRKS00005056.
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spelling pubmed-39393982014-03-04 Colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis in migrants versus non-migrants (KoMigra): study protocol of a cross-sectional study in Germany Dahlhaus, Anne Guethlin, Corina Schall, Arthur Taubenroth, Maja van Ewijk, Reyn Zeeb, Hajo Albay, Zeycan Schulz-Rothe, Sylvia Beyer, Martin Gerlach, Ferdinand M Blettner, Maria Siebenhofer, Andrea BMC Cancer Study Protocol BACKGROUND: In Germany, about 20% of the total population have a migration background. Differences exist between migrants and non-migrants in terms of health care access and utilisation. Colorectal cancer is the second most common malignant tumour in Germany, and incidence, staging and survival chances depend, amongst other things, on ethnicity and lifestyle. The current study investigates whether stage at diagnosis differs between migrants and non-migrants with colorectal cancer in an area of high migration and attempts to identify factors that can explain any differences. METHODS/DESIGN: Data on tumour and migration status will be collected for 1,200 consecutive patients that have received a new, histologically verified diagnosis of colorectal cancer in a high migration area in Germany in the previous three months. The recruitment process is expected to take 16 months and will include gastroenterological private practices and certified centres for intestinal diseases. Descriptive and analytical analysis will be performed: the distribution of variables for migrants versus non-migrants and participants versus non-participants will be analysed using appropriate χ2-, t-, F- or Wilcoxon tests. Multivariable, logistic regression models will be performed, with the dependent variable being the dichotomized stage of the tumour (UICC stage I versus more advanced than UICC stage I). Odds ratios and associated 95%-confidence intervals will be calculated. Furthermore, ordered logistic regression models will be estimated, with the exact stage of the tumour at diagnosis as the dependent variable. Predictors used in the ordered logistic regression will be patient characteristics that are specific to migrants as well as patient characteristics that are not. Interaction models will be estimated in order to investigate whether the effects of patient characteristics on stage of tumour at the time of the initial diagnosis is different in migrants, compared to non-migrants. DISCUSSION: An association of migration status or other socioeconomic variables with stage at diagnosis of colorectal cancer would be an important finding with respect to equal health care access among migrants. It would point to access barriers or different symptom appraisal and, in the long term, could contribute to the development of new health care concepts for migrants. TRIAL REGISTRATION: German Clinical Trials Register DRKS00005056. BioMed Central 2014-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3939398/ /pubmed/24559172 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-123 Text en Copyright © 2014 Dahlhaus et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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Dahlhaus, Anne
Guethlin, Corina
Schall, Arthur
Taubenroth, Maja
van Ewijk, Reyn
Zeeb, Hajo
Albay, Zeycan
Schulz-Rothe, Sylvia
Beyer, Martin
Gerlach, Ferdinand M
Blettner, Maria
Siebenhofer, Andrea
Colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis in migrants versus non-migrants (KoMigra): study protocol of a cross-sectional study in Germany
title Colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis in migrants versus non-migrants (KoMigra): study protocol of a cross-sectional study in Germany
title_full Colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis in migrants versus non-migrants (KoMigra): study protocol of a cross-sectional study in Germany
title_fullStr Colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis in migrants versus non-migrants (KoMigra): study protocol of a cross-sectional study in Germany
title_full_unstemmed Colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis in migrants versus non-migrants (KoMigra): study protocol of a cross-sectional study in Germany
title_short Colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis in migrants versus non-migrants (KoMigra): study protocol of a cross-sectional study in Germany
title_sort colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis in migrants versus non-migrants (komigra): study protocol of a cross-sectional study in germany
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3939398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24559172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-123
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