A new study shows that cancer patients in precarious living situations are twice as likely to die from their illness, underscoring the harms of unstable housing.
Whenever social risk factors arise, “there’s an opportunity for someone to fall through the cracks or experience a delay,” says Phillips, who is now a data scientist at Georgia State University . That delay could take many forms, “whether it’s cancer not diagnosed as early as it should have, receiving treatment, missing appointments, and not getting treatment in the way they should have,” she says.
Even if the exact nature of the link isn’t clear, the connection between housing and health suggests that improving people’s living security would have compound benefits. But it’s a big issue to address. In the US, some programs exist for supporting people with housing, but they are limited in the amount of support they can provide and who qualifies for benefits, leaving enormous gaps in affordable housing for many people.
A further dimension is that some groups are more likely to suffer from housing insecurity—potentially putting them at greater risk from cancer.published in 2019 showed that in parts of the US where Black populations suffer mortgage discrimination—that is, where lenders discriminate against customers based on race—the disparity in cancer mortality between Black and white people is also larger.
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