Role of neighborhood context in ovarian cancer survival disparities: current research and future directions.

ABSTRACT: Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer-associated mortality among US women with survival disparities seen across race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, even after accounting for histology, stage, treatment, and other clinical factors. Neighborhood context can play an important role in ovarian cancer survival, and, to the extent to which minority racial and ethnic groups and populations of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to be segregated into neighborhoods with lower quality social, built, and physical environment, these contextual factors may be a critical component of ovarian cancer survival disparities. Understanding factors associated with ovarian cancer outcome disparities will allow clinicians to identify patients at risk for worse outcomes and point to mea

SUBMITTER: Gomez SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10538437 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature