Abstract “Neighborhoods and health” research has shown that area social factors are
associated with the health outcomes that patients with cancer experience across the cancer …

Neighborhoods encompass complex environments comprised of unique economic,
physical, and social characteristics that have a profound impact on the residing individual's …

Importance Disadvantaged neighborhood-level and individual-level socioeconomic status
(SES) have each been associated with suboptimal cancer care and inferior outcomes …

Racial health disparities continue to be a serious problem in the United States and have
been linked to contextual factors, including racial segregation. In some cases, including …

Importance Neighborhood-level disadvantage is an important factor in the creation and
persistence of underresourced neighborhoods with an undue burden of disparate breast …

The aim of the study is to determine the influence of area-level socio-economic status and
healthcare access in addition to tumor hormone-receptor subtype on individual breast …

Importance Racial disparities in time to surgery (TTS) after a breast cancer diagnosis and
whether these differences account for disparities in overall survival have been understudied …

Purpose It is unclear whether time between breast cancer diagnosis and surgery is
associated with survival and whether this relationship is affected by access to care. We …

Purpose The goals of this study were to identify geographic and racial/ethnic variation in
breast cancer mortality, and evaluate whether observed geographic differences are …

Objectives To determine to what extent demographic, social support, socioeconomic,
geographic, medical, and End‐of‐Life (EOL) planning factors explain racial and ethnic …