Within the United States, cervical cancer morbidity, mortality and survival are experienced differently among women of varying races and socioeconomic status. Non-Hispanic black women have higher rates of incidence and mortality, as compared to non-Hispanic white women.Using the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results database, United States Census data and Area Resource Files, a survival analysis was conducted to identify socioeconomic factors related to cervical cancer survival, as well as factors that mediated the racial disparities in survival.Socioeconomic factors, measured at the US county level, that were associated with cervical cancer survival included unemployment rates, poverty level, percentage of white collar individuals, and educational attainment. An empirical search for confounders of the relationship between race and survival was conducted, and after adjustment for these confounders, non-Hispanic black women were found to have significantly poorer survival than non-Hispanic white women, with a 17% increased risk of death. / Aux États-Unis, les femmes noires non hispaniques ont des taux plus élevés d'incidence et de mortalité que les femmes blanches non hispaniques. En utilisant la base des données "Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results," une analyse a été réalisée pour identifier les facteurs socio-économiques liés à la survie du cancer du col de l'utérus, ainsi que les facteurs qui affectent les disparités raciales en matière de survie. Les facteurs socioéconomiques communautaires qui ont été associés à la survie au cancer du col utérin incluent le taux de chômage, le niveau de pauvreté, le pourcentage d'individuels professionnels, et le niveau de scolarité. Une recherche empirique des facteurs de relation entre la race et la survie a été effectuée. Après l'ajustement de ces facteurs, les femmes noires d'origine non hispanique ont été retrouvées à avoir une risque de mortalité qui était 17% plus haut que celles des femmes blanches d'origine non hispaniques.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.97130 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Sirjoosingh, Candace |
| Contributors | Eduardo L F Franco (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | French |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | Electronically-submitted theses. |
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