Association Between Residence in Historically Redlined Districts Indicative of Structural Racism and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Breast Cancer Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Historical structural racism may be associated with racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities in breast cancer outcomes, but few studies have investigated these potential relationships.

Objective

To test associations among historical mortgage lending discrimination (using 1930s Home Owners' Loan Corporation [HOLC] redlining data), race and ethnicity, tumor clinicopathologic features, and survival among women recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used a population-based, state cancer registry to analyze breast tumor clinicopathology and breast cancer-specific death among women diagnosed from 2008 to 2017 and followed up through 2019. Participants included all primary, histologically confirmed, invasive br

SUBMITTER: Plascak JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9270695 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature