Neighborhood Disinvestment Predicts Shorter Cancer Survival Time among Black Women Diagnosed with Invasive Breast Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Observed neighborhood disinvestment is a chronic social determinant that is understudied in relation to cancer outcomes. This study investigated associations between neighborhood disinvestment, stage at diagnosis, and breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS) time.

Methods

Individual-level data included 844 women, diagnosed 2013 to 2019, from the Women's Circle of Health Follow-up Study, a population-based cohort of breast cancer survivors self-identifying as Black or African American. Neighborhood disinvestment was from a virtual audit of six indicators-garbage, graffiti, dumpsters, building conditions, yard conditions, and abandoned buildings-within 14,671 Google Street View streetscapes estimated at residential addresses using Universal Kriging. We fit accelerated

SUBMITTER: Plascak JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12046317 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature