Socioeconomic status and cancers of the female breast and reproductive organs: a comparison across racial/ethnic populations in Los Angeles County, California (United States)

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dc.contributor.authorLiu, Lihua
dc.contributor.authorDeapen, Dennis
dc.contributor.authorBernstein, Leslie
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:03:27Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:03:27Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.description.abstractOBJECTIVES: Despite the fact that socioeconomic status (SES) has been shown to have important implications in health related issues, population-based cancer registries in the United States do not routinely collect SES information. This study presents a model to estimate the SES of cancer patients in the registry database. METHODS: At the Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program (CSP), we developed a model to estimate each cancer patient's SES from aggregate measurements of the census tract of residence (n = 1,640) at time of diagnosis. We then applied the SES estimates to observe the relationship between SES and risk of cancers of the female breast and reproductive organs including cancers of the ovary, cervix uteri, and corpus uteri. The analyses were performed on the cumulative records (n = 127,819) of cancer patients diagnosed between 1972 and 1992 in Los Angeles County, California, for the mutually exclusive racial/ethnic groups of non-Hispanic Whites, Hispanic Whites, Blacks, Asians, and persons of other ethnic groups. RESULTS: We found SES is positively associated with female breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and cancer of the corpus uteri, but inversely associated with cervical cancer. These SES trends were quite consistent across age groups among non-Hispanic White women. Variations by race/ethnicity in the SES patterns were also found, with Asians exhibiting little association. CONCLUSIONS: Our model of measuring SES is sufficiently sensitive to capture the trends. Adopting the aggregate approach to measure SES in population-based registry data appears to be useful.
dc.description.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008811432436
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/blvm-8e9p
dc.identifier.citationLiu, Lihua and Deapen, Dennis and Bernstein, Leslie (1998) Socioeconomic status and cancers of the female breast and reproductive organs: a comparison across racial/ethnic populations in Los Angeles County, California (United States). Cancer Causes and Control, 9 (4). pp. 369-380.
dc.identifier.issn09575243
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 2829
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/23469
dc.subjectHealth Equity
dc.subjectCancer
dc.subjectstudies
dc.subjectBreast cancer
dc.subjectreproductive cancers
dc.subjectsocial class
dc.subjectregistries
dc.subjectethnic groups
dc.subjectUnited States
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleSocioeconomic status and cancers of the female breast and reproductive organs: a comparison across racial/ethnic populations in Los Angeles County, California (United States)
dc.typeArticle

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