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Shrinking, widening, reversing, and stagnating trends in US socioeconomic inequities in cancer mortality for the total, black, and white populations: 1960-2006.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES OF STUDY:To test recent claims that cancer inequities are bound to increase as population health improves. METHODS:We analyzed 1960-2006 age-standardized US county cancer mortality data, total and site-specific (lung, prostate, colorectal, breast, cervix, stomach), stratified by county income quintile for the US total, black, and white populations. RESULTS:Between 1960 and 2006, US socioeconomic inequities in cancer mortality variously shrunk, widened, reversed, and stagnated, depending on time period and cancer site. For all cancers combined and most, but not all, sites, absolute, but not relative, socioeconomic gaps were greater for the black compared to white population. Compared to the yearly age-specific mortality rates among whites in the most affluent counties, the percent of excess cancer deaths among whites in the lower four county income quintiles first rose above 0 in 1990 and in 2006 equaled 5.4% (95% CI 4.8, 6.0); among blacks, it rose from 6.0% (95% CI 4.5, 7.4) in 1960 to 24.7% (95% CI 23.9, 25.5) in 1990 and remained at this level through 2006. CONCLUSIONS:The hypothesis that cancer mortality inequities are bound to increase is refuted by long-term data on total and site-specific cancer mortality stratified by socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity.

SUBMITTER: Krieger N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3262111 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Shrinking, widening, reversing, and stagnating trends in US socioeconomic inequities in cancer mortality for the total, black, and white populations: 1960-2006.

Krieger Nancy N Chen Jarvis T JT Kosheleva Anna A Waterman Pamela D PD

Cancer causes & control : CCC 20111125 2

<h4>Objectives of study</h4>To test recent claims that cancer inequities are bound to increase as population health improves.<h4>Methods</h4>We analyzed 1960-2006 age-standardized US county cancer mortality data, total and site-specific (lung, prostate, colorectal, breast, cervix, stomach), stratified by county income quintile for the US total, black, and white populations.<h4>Results</h4>Between 1960 and 2006, US socioeconomic inequities in cancer mortality variously shrunk, widened, reversed, ...[more]

PMID: 22116539

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Project description:BackgroundReducing disparities in men with prostate cancer (PCa) that may be caused by racial and socioeconomic differences is a major public health priority. Few reports have studied whether these disparities have changed over time.MethodsMen diagnosed with PCa from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2015 were identified from the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania cancer registries. All-cause mortality and PCa and cardiovascular cause-specific mortality were assessed. To estimate neighborhood socioeconomic position (nSEP), a summary score was generated using census tract-level measures of income, wealth, educational attainment, and racial and income segregation. Participants were grouped by diagnosis year (2000-2003, 2004-2007, 2008-2011, or 2012-2015), and changing trends in the mortality rate ratio by race and nSEP were estimated using covariate-adjusted Cox models with follow-up for up to 10 years, until death, or until censoring on January 1, 2018.ResultsThere were 193,883 patients with PCa and 43,661 deaths over 1,404,131 person-years of follow-up. The Black-White adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) from 2000 to 2003 through 2012 to 2015 was stable for all-cause mortality (aHR, 1.14 to 0.97; P for heterogeneity = .42), decreased for PCa-specific mortality (aHR, 1.38 to 0.93; P for heterogeneity = .005), and increased for cardiovascular mortality (aHR, 1.09 to 1.28; P for heterogeneity = .034). The aHR comparing those in the lowest versus the highest nSEP quintile increased significantly for all-cause mortality (aHR, 1.54 to 1.79; P for heterogeneity = .008), but not for PCa-specific mortality (aHR, 1.60 to 1.72; P for heterogeneity = .40) or cardiovascular mortality (aHR, 1.72 to 1.89; P for heterogeneity = .085).ConclusionsAlthough Black-White disparities in prostate mortality declined in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania over the study period, nSEP mortality disparity trends were stagnant or increased, warranting further attention.Lay summaryFew reports have examined whether racial and socioeconomic disparities in prostate cancer mortality have widened or narrowed in recent years. Using data from 2 state registries (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania) with differing intensities of government-mandated health insurance, trends in racial and neighborhood socioeconomic disparities were studied among Black and White men diagnosed from 2000 to 2015. Overall, trends in racial disparities were stagnant for all-cause mortality, shrank for prostate mortality, and widened for cardiovascular mortality. Disparities associated with neighborhood socioeconomic status either were stagnant or widened across all mortality end points. In general, disparities were more pronounced in Pennsylvania than in Massachusetts.

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Shrinking, widening, reversing, and stagnating trends in US socioeconomic inequities in cancer mortality for the total, black, and white populations: 1960-2006.

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Shrinking, widening, reversing, and stagnating trends in US socioeconomic inequities in cancer mortality for the total, black, and white populations: 1960-2006.

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