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Residential environment and breast cancer incidence and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Socioeconomic inequalities in breast cancer incidence and mortality in Europe-a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of public health · 2016Pooled it
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- The role of ethnic enclaves and neighborhood socioeconomic status in invasive breast cancer incidence rates among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander females in California.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2025Article
- Ethnic Enclaves and Incidence of Cancer Among US Ethnic Minorities in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- An umbrella review of socioeconomic status and cancer.Nature communications · 2024Review
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- Socioecologic Factors and Racial Differences in Breast Cancer Multigene Prognostic Scores in US Women.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Cancer incidence trends in New York State and associations with common population-level exposures 2010-2018: an ecological study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Risk for Hereditary Neoplastic Syndromes in Women with Mismatch Repair-Proficient Endometrial Cancer.Genes · 2023Article
- A novel method for measuring the burden of breast cancer in neighborhoods.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Neighborhood Contexts and Breast Cancer Among Asian American Women.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundFactors beyond the individual level such as those characterizing the residential environment may be important to breast cancer outcomes. We provide a systematic review and results of meta-analysis of the published empirical literature on the associations between breast cancer risk and mortality and features of the residential environment.
methodsUsing PRISMA guidelines, we searched four electronic databases and manually searched the references of selected articles for studies that were published before June 2013. We selected English language articles that presented data on adult breast cancer incidence or mortality in relation to at least one area-based residential (ABR) independent variable.
resultsWe reviewed 31 eligible studies, and observed variations in ABR construct definition and measurement, study design, and analytic approach. The most common ABR measures were indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) (e.g., income, education, summary measures of several SES indicators or composite SES). We observed positive associations between breast cancer incidence and urbanization (Pooled RR for urban vs. rural: 1.09. 95% CI: 1.01, 1.19), ABR income (Pooled RR for highest vs. lowest ABR income: 1.17, 95% CI: 1.15, 1.19) and ABR composite SES (Pooled RR for highest vs. lowest ABR composite SES: 1.25, 95% CI: 1.08, 1.44). We did not observe consistent associations between any ABR measures and breast cancer mortality.
conclusionsThe findings suggest modest positive associations between urbanization and residential area socioeconomic environment and breast cancer incidence. Further studies should address conceptual and methodological gaps in the current publications to enable inference regarding the influence of the residential environment on breast cancer.
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