Associations of Social Vulnerability and Race-Ethnicity With Gastrointestinal Cancers in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

National social determinant of health (SDoH) studies on gastrointestinal cancers (GIC) have observed single GIC-types for surgery but not across all GIC-types, non-surgical treatments outcomes, or mortality. The Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), a validated large-data SDoH-tool, quantifiably characterizes the interrelatedness of SDoH-impact through dynamic, region-contextualized measures.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study assessed GIC patients (20+ years) between 2013 and 2017 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database for total and subcomponent social vulnerability associations across 15 SDoH-variables encompassing themes of socioeconomic status, minority-language status, household composition, and housing-transportation measured b

SUBMITTER: Fei-Zhang DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11880827 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature