Is There a Relationship between County-Level Food Insecurity Rates and Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis?

Authors :: Chinedum O. Ojinnaka
Meg Bruening
Jaclyn Christ
Source :: Nutrition and Cancer. 74:1291-1298
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2021.
Abstract: The relationship between county food insecurity (FI) rate and breast cancer stage at diagnosis is not clear. Using 2010-2016 Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) and Feeding America data we analyzed the association between county FI rate in quartiles (low, medium, high, very high) and breast cancer stage at diagnosis among adult females (≥18 years). We also analyzed the effect of insurance status and county poverty level on this relationship, and whether this relationship varies among non-elderly (

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