Adapting a model of cervical carcinogenesis to self-identified Black women to evaluate racial disparities in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Self-identified Black women in the United States have higher cervical cancer incidence and mortality than the general population, but these differences have not been clearly attributed across described cancer care inequities.

Methods

A previously established microsimulation model of cervical cancer was adapted to reflect demographic, screening, and survival data for Black US women and compared with a model reflecting data for all US women. Each model input with stratified data (all-cause mortality, hysterectomy rates, screening frequency, screening modality, follow-up, and cancer survival) was sequentially replaced with Black-race specific data to arrive at a fully specified model reflecting Black women. At each step, we estimated the relative contribution of inpu

SUBMITTER: Spencer JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10637021 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature