Age at cancer diagnosis, amenability to medical interventions, and racial/ethnic disparities in cancer mortality

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 553-560

  Tehranifar, Parisa ^a,b   Goyal, Abhishek ^a   Phelan, Jo C ^a   Link, Bruce G ^a,c   Liao, Yuyan ^a   Fan, Xiaozhou ^a   Desai, Manisha ^d   Terry, Mary Beth ^a,b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Cancer mortality; Medical advances; Racial ethnic disparities; Survival factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY; ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNIC GROUP; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961208355     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-016-0729-2     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Jemal A, Clegg LX, Ward E, LA Ries WX, Jamison PM, Wingo PA, Howe HL, Anderson RN, Edwards BK (2004) Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975–2001, with a special feature regarding survival. Cancer 101:3–27
2. Phelan JC, Link BG (2015) Is racism a fundamental cause of inequalities in health? Annu Rev Sociol 4:311–330
3. Phelan JC, Link BG, Tehranifar P (2010) Social conditions as fundamental causes of health inequalities: theory, evidence and policy impliactions. J Health Soc Behav 51(Suppl):S28–S40
4. Williams DR, Jackson PB (2005) Social sources of racial disparities in health. Health Aff (Millwood) 24(2):325–334. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.24.2.325
5. Williams DR, Mohammed SA, Leavell J, Collins C (2010) Race, socioeconomic status, and health: complexities, ongoing challenges, and research opportunities. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1186:69–101. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05339.x
6. Phelan JC, Link BG, Diez-Roux A, Kawachi I, Levin B (2004) “Fundamental Causes” of social inequalities in mortality: a test of the theory. J Health Soc Behav 45:265–285
7. Link BG, Phelan J (1995) Social conditions as fundamental causes of disease. J Health Soc Behav 35:80–94
8. Tehranifar P, Neugut AI, Phelan JC, Link BG, Liao Y, Desai M, Terry MB (2009) Medical advances and racial/ethnic disparities in cancer survival. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0305
9. Dannefer D (2003) Cumulative advantage/disadvantage and the life course: cross-fertilizing age and social science theory. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 58(6):S327–S337
10. Kim J, Durden E (2007) Socioeconomic status and age trajectories of health. Soc Sci Med 65(12):2489–2502. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.07.022
11. House JS, Kessler RC, Herzog AR (1990) Age, socioeconomic status, and health. Milbank Q 68(3):383–411
12. Kim J, Miech R (2009) The Black–White difference in age trajectories of functional health over the life course. Soc Sci Med 68(4):717–725. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.12.021
13. Ferraro KF, Farmer MM (1996) Double jeopardy, aging as leveler, or persistent health inequality? A longitudinal analysis of white and black Americans. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 51(6):S319–S328
14. Sorlie PD, Backlund E, Keller JB (1995) US mortality by economic, demographic, and social characteristics: the National Longitudinal Mortality Study. Am J Public Health 85(7):949–956
15. Dupre ME (2007) Educational differences in age-related patterns of disease: reconsidering the cumulative disadvantage and age-as-leveler hypotheses. J Health Soc Behav 48(1):1–15
16. Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program (http://seer.cancer.gov/seerstat/index.html), National Cancer Institute D, Surveillance Research Program, Cancer Statistics Branch
17. Henson DE, Ries LA (1995) The relative survival rate. Cancer 76(10):1687–1688
18. Singh GK, Miller BA, Hankey BF, Edwards BK (2007) Area socioeconomic variations in U.S. cancer incidence, mortality, stage, treatment, and survival, 1975–1999. NCI Cancer Surveillance Monograph Series, Number 4. NCI Cancer Surveillance Monograph Series, National Cancer Institute, NIH Publication No. 03-0000. Bethesda, MD
19. Hosmer DW, Lemeshow S, May S (2008) Applied survival analysis: regression modeling of time-to-event data. Wiley series in probability and statistics, 2nd edn. Wiley, Hoboken
20. Phelan JC, Link BG (2005) Controlling disease and creating disparities: a fundamental cause perspective. J Gerontol 60B:27–33
21. House JS, Lantz PM, Herd P (2005) Continuity and change in the social stratification of aging and health over the life course: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study from 1986 to 2001/2002 (Americans’ Changing Lives Study). J Gerontol Ser B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60:15–26
22. Masters RK (2012) Uncrossing the US black–white mortality crossover: the role of cohort forces in life course mortality risk. Demography 49(3):773–796. doi:10.1007/s13524-012-0107-y
23. Lynch SM (2003) Cohort and life-course patterns in the relationship between education and health: a hierarchical approach. Demography 40(2):309–331
24. Masters RK, Hummer RA, Powers DA, Beck A, Lin SF, Finch BK (2014) Long-term trends in adult mortality for U.S. Blacks and Whites: an examination of period- and cohort-based changes. Demography 51(6):2047–2073. doi:10.1007/s13524-014-0343-4
25. Harper S, Lynch J (2005, NIH Publication No. 05-5777) Selected comparisons of measures of health disparities: a review using databases relevant to healthy people 2010. NCI Cancer Surveillance Monograph Series, Bethesda, MD
26. Byers T (2010) Two decades of declining cancer mortality: progress with disparity. Annu Rev Public Health 31:121–132. doi:10.1146/annurev.publhealth.121208.131047
27. Gerend MA, Pai M (2008) Social determinants of Black–White disparities in breast cancer mortality: a review. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17(11):2913–2923. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-0633
28. Rubin MS, Colen CG, Link BG (2010) Examination of inequalities in HIV/AIDS mortality in the United States from a fundamental cause perspective. Am J Public Health 100(6):1053–1059. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.170241
29. Miech RA, Kumanyika SK, Stettler N, Link BG, Phelan JC, Chang VW (2006) Trends in the association of poverty with overweight among US adolescents, 1971–2004. JAMA 295(20):2385–2393. doi:10.1001/jama.295.20.2385
30. Wang A, Clouston SA, Rubin MS, Colen CG, Link BG (2012) Fundamental causes of colorectal cancer mortality: the implications of informational diffusion. Milbank Q 90(3):592–618. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0009.2012.00675.x