Associations between neighborhood disinvestment and breast cancer outcomes within a populous state registry.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Breast cancer (BrCa) outcomes vary by social environmental factors, but the role of built-environment factors is understudied. The authors investigated associations between environmental physical disorder-indicators of residential disrepair and disinvestment-and BrCa tumor prognostic factors (stage at diagnosis, tumor grade, triple-negative [negative for estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER2 receptor] BrCa) and survival within a large state cancer registry linkage.

Methods

Data on sociodemographic, tumor, and vital status were derived from adult women who had invasive BrCa diagnosed from 2008 to 2017 ascertained from the New Jersey State Cancer Registry. Physical disorder was assessed through virtual neighborhood audits of 23,276 locations across New

SUBMITTER: Plascak JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9070603 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature