Open AccessImpact of individual and neighborhood factors on socioeconomic disparities in localized and advanced prostate cancer risk
Author(s) -
Mindy C. DeRouen,
Clayton W. Schupp,
Juan Yang,
Jocelyn Koo,
Andrew Hertz,
Salma ShariffMarco,
Myles Cockburn,
David Nelson,
Sue A. Ingles,
Iona Cheng,
Esther M. John,
Scarlett Lin Gomez
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ccc. cancer causes and control/ccc, cancer causes and control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.073
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-7225
pISSN - 0957-5243
DOI - 10.1007/s10552-018-1071-7
Subject(s) - prostate cancer , socioeconomic status , population , logistic regression , medicine , demography , environmental health , odds ratio , cancer , gerontology , sociology
The reasons behind socio-economic disparities in prostate cancer incidence remain unclear. We tested the hypothesis that individual-level factors act jointly with neighborhood-level social and built environment factors to influence prostate cancer risk and that specific social and built environment factors contribute to socio-econmic differences in risk.