Correlates of health-related quality of life in African Americans diagnosed with cancer: a review of survivorship studies and the Detroit research on cancer survivors cohort.

Advances in cancer screening and treatment have improved survival after a diagnosis of cancer. As the number of cancer survivors as well as their overall life-expectancy increases, investigations of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are critical in understanding the factors that promote the optimal experience over the course of survivorship. However, there is a dearth of information on determinants of HRQOL for African American cancer survivors as the vast majority of cohorts have been conducted predominantly among non-Hispanic Whites.

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in survival among patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors have profoundly impacted survival among patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. However, population-based studies evaluating this impact on survival by race and socioeconomic factors are lacking.

Methods: We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program-Medicare database to identify patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer diagnosed between 2015 and 2019.

Multiplicity of benign breast disease lesions and breast cancer risk in African American women.

The risk of developing subsequent breast cancer is higher in women diagnosed with benign breast disease (BBD) but these studies were primarily performed in non-Hispanic white populations. Still, these estimates have been used to inform breast cancer risk models that are being used clinically across all racial and ethnic groups. Given the high breast cancer mortality rates among African American (AA) women, it is critical to study BBD in this population, to ensure the risk models that include this information perform adequately.

Age at diagnosis and social risks among Black cancer survivors: Results from the Detroit Research on Cancer Survivors cohort.

Background: Social risks are common among cancer survivors who have the fewest financial resources; however, little is known about how prevalence differs by age at diagnosis, despite younger survivors' relatively low incomes and wealth.

Methods: The authors used data from 3703 participants in the Detroit Research on Cancer Survivors (ROCS) cohort of Black cancer survivors. Participants self-reported several forms of social risks, including food insecurity, housing instability, utility shut-offs, not getting care because of cost or lack of transportation, and feeling unsafe in their home neighborhood.