Does socioeconomic disparity in cancer incidence vary across racial/ethnic groups?

• DOI: 10.1007/s10552-010-9601-y
• Publication Date: 2010-06-21T06:28:15Z
• Authors: Daixin Yin; Cyllene Morris; Mark Allen; Rosemary Cress; Janet Bates; Lihua Liu
• Keywords: Male; Cancer Research; Epidemiology; Biomedicine general; 610; Disparities; 613; Race/ethnicity; California; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Neoplasms; Humans; Registries; Cancer; Original Paper; Incidence; Disparity; Censuses; Hematology; Health Status Disparities; studies; 3. Good health; Biomedicine; Oncology; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic status; Female; Cancer incidence; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen

Very few studies have simultaneously examined incidence of the leading cancers in relation to socioeconomic status (SES) and race/ethnicity populations including Hispanics Asians. This study aims describe SES disparity cancer within each four major racial/ethnic groups (non-Hispanic white, black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander) for five sites, female breast cancer, colorectal cervical lung prostate cancer.Invasive sites diagnosed from 1998 2002 (n = 376,158) California were included study. Composite area-based measures used quantify level calculate rates stratified by SES. Relative index inequality (RII) was generated measure gradient group.Significant variations detected disparities across all sites. Female increased with groups, trend strongest among Hispanics. Incidence decreased SES, largest non-Hispanic white women. Lung exception Hispanic men women, whom opposite direction. For higher associated lower whites but Islander women.Examining enhances our understanding complex relationships between incidence, race/ethnicity.