Community Factors and County-Level Cancer Screening, Prevalence, and Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Cancer screening, prevalence, and mortality vary across US counties; the broad set of community factors associated with these differences are not well understood.

Objective

To assess the relative importance of diverse community measures for explaining county-level variance in cancer screening, prevalence, and mortality rates for breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers.

Design, setting, and participants

This geospatial cross-sectional analysis across all US counties used random forest algorithms to estimate the relative importance of 24 community measures-including health behaviors and lifestyle, socioeconomic, and environment factors-as explanatory factors for cancer screening, prevalence, and mortality. For each cancer, county-level cancer screening

SUBMITTER: Drake AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12550642 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature