Social factors matter in cancer risk and survivorship.

摘要: Greater attention to social factors, such as race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and others, are needed across the cancer continuum, including breast cancer, given differences in tumor biology genetic variants have not completely explained persistent Black/White mortality disparity. In this commentary, we use examples risk assessment survivorship demonstrate how failure appropriately incorporate factors into design, recruitment, analysis of research studies has resulted missed opportunities reduce disparities. The conclusion offers recommendations for better document information on care by (1) increasing education awareness about importance inclusion clinical research; (2) improving testing documentation incorporating them journal guidelines reporting stratified results; (3) refine extant tools that assess assign care. Implementing recommended changes would enable more effective design implementation interventions work toward eliminating disparities accounting environmental contexts which patients live treated.