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Within-Group Racial and Ethnic Differences in County-Level Socio-Behavioral Risk Across Cancer Mortality Tertiles in the United States

2026-02-26 oncology Title + abstract only
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ImportancePersistent racial and ethnic disparities in breast and prostate cancer mortality are well documented. Most prior studies emphasize between-group differences and rely on population averages or single composite measures of social disadvantage, which can obscure high-need communities within groups. How socio-behavioral determinants of health vary within groups across local gradients of cancer mortality remains incompletely characterized. A framework that combines race- and cancer-specific...

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