Cancer mortality rates correlate to geography as well as known behavioral riskfactors jamanetworkopen
For example, western states have the lowest rates of cancer deaths per 100,000 residents. Among those who do die from any type of cancer, risk factors such as obesity,and diabetes outweigh smoking and drinking as principal behavioral risk factors.
Meanwhile, in southern states, where deaths from cancer per 100,000 residents are the highest, smoking is the leading behavioral risk factor linked to cancer mortality. The researchers focused on a broad range of risk factors known to both contribute to and help prevent cancer deaths, including health behaviors and, demographic and environmental factors, comorbidity prevalence, cancer screenings and receipt of treatment and survivorship care.
"This innovative approach to data analysis—using existing behavioral risk-factor data and a novel location-focused machine-learning method—shows the power of more refined data analysis with practical applications in addressing cancer care and prevention," said the study's lead author Weichuan Dong, a health services researcher with Population Cancer Analytics Shared Resource at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The paper,"Variation in and Factors Associated with U.S. County-Level Cancer Mortality, 2008-2019," ran inThis geospatial cross-sectional study used county-level data from the National Center for Health Statistics for individuals who died of cancer from 2008 to 2019. Risk-factor data was obtained from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study included 7.
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