The effect of neighborhood-level socioeconomic status on racial differences in ovarian cancer treatment (Chicago)

abstract

Background

Less than half of women with ovarian cancer and blacks specifically receive therapy adherent to National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines. The purpose is to assess the effect of neighborhood-level socioeconomic status (SES) on black-white treatment differences in a population-based analysis in a highly-segregated community
 Highlights

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Racial inequality exists in receipt of even the most basic level of oncologic care for OVCA in Cook County, Illinois

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Neighborhood-level concentrated advantage appears to play a role in receipt of chemotherapy, but not in receipt of surgery

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Inequality in treatment for OVCA persisted despite adjustment for both individual-level clinical factors and neighborhood-level SES (concentrated affluence and disadvantage)