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ArticleCancer medicine2024

Racial and ethnic disparities in mortality among World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees with post-9/11 cancer.

Rebecca D Kehm, Jiehui Li, James E Cone

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Rebecca D KehmNew York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, World Trade Center Health Registry, Long Island City, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6089-6799
Jiehui LiNew York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, World Trade Center Health Registry, Long Island City, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7812-8878
James E ConeNew York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, World Trade Center Health Registry, Long Island City, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2145-1348

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Extension of the World Trade Center RegistryU50OH009739 · OH · NEW YORK CITY HEALTH/MENTAL HYGIENE · PI FARFEL, MARK R · 2009 to 2025
$120.0M
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Abstract

introductionThere are well-documented racial and ethnic disparities in mortality after cancer in the general population, but less is known about whether disparities also exist in disaster-exposed populations.

methodsWe conducted a longitudinal cohort study of 4341 enrollees in the World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR) with a first-ever primary invasive cancer diagnosis after 9/11/2001 and followed through 2020. We examined associations of race and ethnicity with all-cause mortality risk and cause-specific mortality risk using multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression models and Fine and Gray's proportional sub-distribution hazards models, respectively. Models were adjusted for baseline characteristics and tumor characteristics. We also examined models further adjusted for socioeconomic status (SES), and we used inverse odds weighting to formally test for mediation by SES.

resultsCompared to non-Hispanic White enrollees with cancer, non-Hispanic Blacks had higher risks for all-cause mortality (adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) = 1.20, 95% CI = 1.02-1.41) and non-cancer mortality (aHR = 1.48, 95% CI = 1.09-2.01) in the full model. In the model without SES, Hispanic enrollees with cancer had higher risks for all-cause mortality (aHR = 1.32, 95% CI = 1.09-1.60) and cancer mortality (aHR = 1.31, 95% CI = 1.05-1.64) compared to non-Hispanic Whites; these associations became not statistically significant in the full model. In the inverse odds weighting analysis, SES explained 24% and 29% of the disparity in all-cause mortality risk observed in non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics, respectively, compared to non-Hispanic Whites.

conclusionThis study found that there are racial and ethnic disparities in mortality after cancer in the WTCHR. Additional studies are needed to further explore the factors mediating these disparities.

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Health Status DisparitiesMortalityNeoplasmsSeptember 11 Terrorist AttacksAdultAgedBlack or African AmericanEthnicityFemaleHispanic or LatinoHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedNew York CityProportional Hazards Models9/11‐disasterdisparitymortalitypost‐9/11 cancerrace and ethnicitysocioeconomic status

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