دورية أكاديمية

The Geographic Context of Racial Disparities in Aggressive Endometrial Cancer Subtypes: Integrating Social and Environmental Aspects to Discern Biological Outcomes

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العنوان: The Geographic Context of Racial Disparities in Aggressive Endometrial Cancer Subtypes: Integrating Social and Environmental Aspects to Discern Biological Outcomes
المؤلفون: Anna Miller, Jennifer Gordon, Jacqueline Curtis, Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar, Fredrick Schumacher, Stefanie Avril
المصدر: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; Volume 19; Issue 14; Pages: 8613
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: endometrial cancer subtypes, racial disparities, geospatial, environmental mechanism, social vulnerability
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: The number of Endometrial Carcinoma (EC) diagnoses is projected to increase substantially in coming decades. Although most ECs have a favorable prognosis, the aggressive, non-endometrioid subtypes are disproportionately concentrated in Black women and spread rapidly, making treatment difficult and resulting in poor outcomes. Therefore, this study offers an exploratory spatial epidemiological investigation of EC patients within a U.S.-based health system’s institutional cancer registry (n = 1748) to search for and study geographic patterns. Clinical, demographic, and geographic characteristics were compared by histotype using chi-square tests for categorical and t-tests for continuous variables. Multivariable logistic regression evaluated the impact of risks on these histotypes. Cox proportional hazard models measured risks in overall and cancer-specific death. Cluster detection indicated that patients with the EC non-endometrioid histotypes exhibit geographic clustering in their home address, such that congregate buildings can be identified for targeted outreach. Furthermore, living in a high social vulnerability area was independently associated with non-endometrioid histotypes, as continuous and categorical variables. This study provides a methodological framework for early, geographically targeted intervention; social vulnerability associations require further investigation. We have begun to fill the knowledge gap of geography in gynecologic cancers, and geographic clustering of aggressive tumors may enable targeted intervention to improve prognoses.
نوع الوثيقة: text
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
العلاقة: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148613Test
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19148613
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148613Test
حقوق: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.FB1FA7D2
قاعدة البيانات: BASE