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RESIDENTIAL MOVEMENT BETWEEN TIME OF CANCER DIAGNOSIS & DEATH Recinda Sherman, MPH, CTR Florida Cancer Data System
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Place is important 2 Epidemiologic triad Technological advancements Desktop GIS, geocoding, mapping Spatial statistic, hypothesis testing Geographic patterns Disease and risk not randomly distributed Important for prevention strategies Causality
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Exposure measurements Lack biologic measurements; proxies Model incomplete risk Residential risk versus work or school Cross-sectional residential history Lack of residential history Lag time between exposure and diagnosis Migration Fallacy Denominator Issues 3
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Breast cancer screening Community A Low Community B Low Community C High Community A Low Community B High Community C Low 4 Incidence riskMortality risk
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Residential mobility Incidence and mortality data presented same years Women diagnosed with breast cancer Women dying from breast cancer Migration in (and die)? Migration out (with diagnosis)? 5
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Research questions Do cancer patients get diagnosed and die at same residence? First primary reported to Florida Death certificate issued by Florida If the residence is different, is the community similar? SES Rurality 6
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Methods Address at diagnosis versus death Cancer cases linked with Vital Stats Probabilistic matching; SSN, name, dob 1995-2006, 1 st primary, no DCOs Valid dx and death year, sex, age Geocoded by FCDS and Vital Stats Unit of analysis Census Tract 7
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Results – Selection Bias 8 446,722 cases for analysis 44% of total first primary cases Significantly (p < 0.001) Older (7 years) Sicker More late stage (26%), more subsequent primaries (3%) More Males (6%) More Blacks (1%) Less Hispanics (2%)
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Results: Overall Migration 9 Percent Same County96% Contiguous County2% Same Tract83% Same Poverty Level94% Same Rurality Level99% Diff County/Same Poverty62% Diff County/Diff Poverty/Same Rurality85%
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Results: Tract Movement Predictors More Likely Poverty Neighborhood at dx OR 1.1; 1.6 Rural Community at dx OR 1.3; 1.9 Longer survival OR 1.2 per year Non-white OR 1.2 Dying in Nursing Home/Hospice OR 1.1 Less Likely Increasing Age at dx 0.99 per year Increasing Stage OR 0.91; 0.72 Married at death OR 0.45 Female OR 0.93 Second Primary OR 0.97 10
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Results: Poverty Movement Predictors More Likely Longer survival OR 1.2 per year Non-white OR 1.7 Dying in Nursing Home/Hospice OR 1.1 Less Likely Increasing Age at dx 0.99 per year Increasing Stage OR 0.89; 0.75 Married at death OR 0.42 Female OR 0.93 Second Primary Not a predictor 11
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Results: Urban/Rural Movement Predictors More Likely Longer survival OR 1.1 per year Non-white OR 0.75 Dying in Nursing Home/Hospice OR 1.2 Less Likely Increasing Age at dx 0.98 per year Increasing Stage OR 0.89; 0.83 Married at death OR 0.52 Female OR 0.76 Second Primary Not a predictor 12
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Implications Vast majority do not move Women, married, White, and sicker advanced disease, older age Misclassification bias Reduce effect size Unlikely to produce erroneous results Target Based on physical community and demographic profile 13
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Future directions Do people change residences after a cancer diagnosis? Who do not die Linkage: DMV, Voter Reg, Medical billing Proprietary residential history databanks Who die outside Florida Linkage: state/county from SSDI State data exchange 14
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Acknowledgements We acknowledge the CDC for financial support under cooperative agreement U58/DP000844 Contents are responsibility of authors and do not represent views of CDC, FL DOH, or FCDS Gary Levin Brad Wohler 15
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