Racial and ethnic disparities in neurocognitive, emotional, and quality-of-life outcomes in survivors of childhood cancer: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study
Cancer Aug 01, 2019
Dixon SB, Li N, Yasui Y, et al. - Among survivors of childhood cancer, researchers identified race/ethnicity-based disparities in neurocognitive, emotional, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes. For this investigation, they compared self-reported measures of neurocognitive function, emotional distress (the Brief Symptom Inventory-18), and HRQOL (the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 health survey) between minority (Hispanic, n = 821; non-Hispanic black [NHB], n = 600) and non-Hispanic white (NHW) (n = 12,287) survivors from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (median age, 30.9 years; range, 16.0-54.1 years). Although no pattern of disparity was observed in neurocognitive outcomes, differences were identified across many minority HRQOL outcomes compared with NHWs, not attenuated by current SES. This indicates that further study on environmental and socio-cultural variables is required during and immediately following therapy.
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