Geographical Variation in Social Determinants of Female Breast Cancer Mortality Across US Counties.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Breast cancer mortality is complex and traditional approaches that seek to identify determinants of mortality assume that their effects on mortality are stationary across geographic space and scales.

Objective

To identify geographic variation in the associations of population demographics, environmental, lifestyle, and health care access with breast cancer mortality at the US county-level.

Design, setting, and participants

This geospatial cross-sectional study used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database on adult female patients with breast cancer. Statistical and spatial analysis was completed using adjusted mortality rates from 2015 to 2019 for 2176 counties in the US. Data were analyzed July 2022.

Exposures

County

SUBMITTER: Anderson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10502521 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature