Effect of Differences in Access to Screening, Healthcare, and Treatment on Cancer Disparities
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (7 April 2023) | Viewed by 7985
Special Issue Editor
Interests: health disparities; germline predisposition to cancer; environmental carcinogens
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cancer incidence, pathology and outcomes vary widely between different populations. For example, transgender men have an increased risk for ovarian cancer, Black women are more likely to develop triple-negative breast cancer than White women, and cancer mortality rates in people with lower socioeconomic status (SES) are higher than those with higher SES. Understanding the factors that contribute to these disparities is critical in reducing cancer burdens and improving outcomes.
While biological differences, such as the BRCA1 and BRCA2 founder mutations in people of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry or deletion of the LSAMP gene in prostate tumors from African American men, have been associated with cancer disparities, non-biological factors also play a critical role in cancer disparities. Differences not only in access to but in quality of cancer screening may contribute to later-stage diagnoses and variability in provision of healthcare, and underlying institutional biases may influence patient compliance, while comorbidities may alter patient treatment.
In this Special Issue, we invite researchers in public health, epidemiology, health economics, biostatistics, psychology, and sociology to submit high-quality empirical papers or systematic reviews that will further broaden our understanding of the healthcare factors that contribute to cancer disparities in different populations.
Dr. Rachel E. Ellsworth
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cancer disparities
- screening
- diagnosis
- healthcare
- access
- provision
- treatment
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