Harvard Health: Prostate cancer is generally viewed as a disease of older men, but about 10% of new diagnoses occur in men age 55 or younger, and socioeconomic factors play an important role.
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The researchers were able to determine the zip codes where each of these patients lived. Then they looked at per-capita income for those zip codes, as well as the percentage of people living within them who had not yet earned a high school diploma. Taken together, the income and educational data served as a composite SES measure for each zip code’s population. In a final step, the team looked at how the survival of early-onset prostate cancer patients across the zip codes compares.
After adjusting for age, race, ethnicity, cancer stage, treatment, and other variables, the lower-SES men were 1.5 times more likely than the higher SES men to have died over a median follow-up of 79 months.According to Dr. Riveros, the findings are consistent with evidence showing that social determinants of health -- the conditions in places where people work and spend their lives -- have broad impacts on cancer risk. “Many people in lower-SES areas have had poor diets since birth,” he says.
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