Cancer Burden in Neighborhoods With Greater Racial Diversity and Environmental Burden.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Ohio has among the nation's highest environmental burden and disproportionately higher lung or bronchus cancer incidence rates.

Objective

To examine (1) the association between environmental burden and cancer, (2) the association between minoritized population and cancer, and (3) the association of environmental burden-minoritized population jointly with cancer.

Design, setting, and participants

An area-level cohort study examining mean annual age-adjusted cancer incidence rates in Ohio from 2011 to 2020. Data were analyzed between May and September 2024.

Exposures

Environmental burden and racial and ethnic composition of Ohio residents from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Environmental Justice Index.

Main outcomes and measures

SUBMITTER: Bobbitt JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12551422 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature