Impact of individual and neighborhood factors on disparities in prostate cancer survival.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We addressed the hypothesis that individual-level factors act jointly with social and built environment factors to influence overall survival for men with prostate cancer and contribute to racial/ethnic and socioeconomic (SES) survival disparities.

Methods

We analyzed multi-level data, combining (1) individual-level data from the California Collaborative Prostate Cancer Study, a population-based study of non-Hispanic White (NHW), Hispanic, and African American prostate cancer cases (N = 1800) diagnosed from 1997 to 2003, with (2) data on neighborhood SES (nSES) and social and built environment factors from the California Neighborhoods Data System, and (3) data on tumor characteristics, treatment and follow-up through 2009 from the California Cancer Registry. Multi

SUBMITTER: DeRouen MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7499899 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature