Associations of Social Vulnerability and Race‐Ethnicity With Gastrointestinal Cancers in the United States
Social vulnerability was associated with worse prognostic and treatment disparities, with certain SDoH-types differentially contributing to these detrimental trends per GIC-type while associations were exacerbated among non-White race/ethnic patients. These real-world contexts present actionable targets for further initiatives to combat GIC disparities.
Authors
- David J. Fei‐Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4485-8274)
- Jeffrey D. Wayne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9934-1109)
- Lifang Hou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4877-0031)
- Peiwen Fei
- Timothy Michael Pawlik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7994-9870)
- David J. Bentrem (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2506-6187)
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- University of Hawaii System (US)
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (US)
- Cancer Center of Hawaii (US)
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
- University of Hawaii Cancer Center
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cancer Medicine
- Published
- 2025-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.70591
- Primary Topic
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00