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Prostate cancer in New York City: impact of neighborhood level social determinants of care

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Social determinants of health may impact prostate cancer presentation. Since neighborhoods may influence adjacent neighborhoods across often porous and arbitrary borders, we performed generalized spatial two stage least squares cross sections regression to assess direct and indirect (via adjacent neighborhoods) impact of neighborhood level independent variables. Using the New York State Public Access Cancer Epidemiology Data and the NYC Open neighborhood-level dataset, we discovered a direct association between Race and poverty with the likelihood of presenting with advanced prostate cancer. There were no indirect impacts of neighborhood variables, indicating the need to directly target neighborhoods to improve outcomes.

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Fig. 1: Maps showing percentage distribution of characteristics within New York City neighborhoods.

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  1. Columbia University Vagelos College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Justin Chestang & Shikun Wang

  2. Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Shikun Wang

  3. Saint Francis Hospital and Trinity Health of New England, Hartford, CT, USA

    James B. Yu

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JC, SW, and JBY all were involved in the conception of research, interpretation of results, and manuscript approval. Data was collected by JC and JBY. Statistical analysis was carried out by JBY.

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Chestang, J., Wang, S. & Yu, J.B. Prostate cancer in New York City: impact of neighborhood level social determinants of care. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 26, 628–630 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41391-023-00687-x

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