Examining Associations of Racial Residential Segregation With Patient Knowledge of Breast Cancer and Treatment Receipt.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The effect of racial residential segregation on breast cancer treatment disparities is unclear. We examined whether racial segregation is associated with adjuvant treatment receipt and patient knowledge of disease.

Patients and methods

We surveyed a population-based sample of women in Northern California with stage I to III breast cancer diagnosed in 2010 to 2011 (participation rate = 68.5%, 500 patients). For black, Hispanic, and white women, we measured black and Hispanic segregation using the location quotient (LQ) of racial residential segregation, a proportional measure of the size of a minority group in the census tract compared with the larger metropolitan statistical area. We categorized LQ values for black and Hispanic participants into quartiles, with qu

SUBMITTER: Bonner SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6556145 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature