The impact of social and environmental factors on cancer biology in Black Americans

BD Lord, AR Harris, S Ambs - Cancer Causes & Control, 2023 - Springer
Low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with early onset of chronic diseases and
reduced life expectancy. The involvement of neighborhood-level factors in defining cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Outcomes in breast cancer—does ethnicity matter?

YS Yap - ESMO open, 2023 - Elsevier
Ethnic or racial differences in breast cancer (BC) survival outcomes have been reported, but
current data are largely restricted to comparisons between African Americans and non …

Neighborhood disadvantage and breast cancer–specific survival

N Goel, A Hernandez, C Thompson, S Choi… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Neighborhood-level disadvantage is an important factor in the creation and
persistence of underresourced neighborhoods with an undue burden of disparate breast …

Neighborhood disadvantage, african genetic ancestry, cancer subtype, and mortality among breast cancer survivors

HS Iyer, N Zeinomar, AR Omilian, M Perlstein… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Racial disparities in breast cancer (BC) survival arise from multilevel causes,
which may exert influence at different stages of BC progression. Clarifying the importance of …

Effects of neighborhood disadvantage on cortisol and interviewer-rated anxiety symptoms in breast cancer patients initiating treatment

N Goel, AE Hernandez, M Ream, ES Clarke… - Breast cancer research …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Shorter breast cancer (BC) survival outcomes persist by neighborhood
disadvantage independent of patient, tumor, and treatment characteristics. This suggests …

Neighborhood deprivation and DNA methylation and expression of cancer genes in breast tumors

BD Jenkins, E Rossi, C Pichardo, W Wooten… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The biological processes that underlie the association of neighborhood
environment with chronic diseases, such as cancer, remain poorly understood. Objective To …

[HTML][HTML] Mediation of the association between disadvantaged neighborhoods and cortical microstructure by body mass index

LA Kilpatrick, K Zhang, TS Dong, GC Gee… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Background Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with worse health
outcomes, including brain health, yet the underlying biological mechanisms are …

ZIP code to genomic code: neighborhood disadvantage, aggressive breast cancer biology, and breast cancer outcomes

N Goel, AE Hernandez, MH Antoni, S Kesmodel… - Annals of …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To determine the association between objective (geospatial) and subjective
(perceived) measures of neighborhood disadvantage (ND) and aggressive breast cancer …

The implications of racialized economic segregation and allostatic load on mortality in patients with breast cancer

JC Chen, D Handley, MI Elsaid, JJ Plascak… - Annals of Surgical …, 2024 - Springer
Background The objective of this study was to examine the association between racialized
economic segregation, allostatic load (AL), and all-cause mortality in patients with breast …

[HTML][HTML] Association between allostatic load and breast cancer risk: a cohort study

Y Guan, J Shen, J Lu, BF Fuemmeler, LS Shock… - Breast Cancer …, 2023 - Springer
Background Allostatic load (AL) reflects the collective load of chronic stress during lifetime.
Previous studies have shown that higher AL is associated with poor clinical outcomes …