Area Deprivation Index in Patients with Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast: Associations with Tumor Characteristics and Outcomes
Mandeep Kaur,
Anne Patterson,
Julissa Molina-Vega
et al.
Abstract:Background: While investigators have shown associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and outcomes in breast cancer, there is a paucity of such data for invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC), the second most common type of breast cancer. Herein we evaluated the relationship between SES with tumor features and outcomes in stage I-III patients with ILC. Methods: We analyzed a prospectively maintained institutional ILC database and utilized the Area Deprivation Index (ADI) to determine neighborhood adversity, an … Show more
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