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253-259
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL TIES AND SURVIVAL AMONG BLACK-AND-WHITE BREAST-CANCER PATIENTS
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Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
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1994
1994-04
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alameda county; Environmental & Occupational Health; follow-up; Health; Heart disease; life stress; men born; mortality; networks; Oncology; predictors; Public; support
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Reynolds P; Boyd P T; Blacklow R S; Jackson J S; Greenberg R S; Austin D F; Chen V W; Edwards B K
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The relationship between social ties, stage of disease, and survival was analyzed in a population-based sample of 525 black and 486 white women with newly diagnosed breast cancer. There were significant differences between the two race groups in reported social ties. Using logistic regression to adjust for the effects of age, race, study area, education, and the presence of symptoms, there was little or no evidence for an association between individual network measures of social ties and stage of disease. However, a summary measure of social networks was found to be associated modestly with late stage disease, attributable in part to significantly more advanced disease among black, but not white, women reporting few friends and relatives [relative risk (RR) = 1.8; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.1-3.0]. With adjustments for differences in stage of disease and other covariates, and with the use of Cox proportional hazards modeling to estimate hazard ratios, the absence of close ties and perceived sources of emotional support were associated significantly with an increased breast cancer death rate. White women in the lowest quartile of reported close friends and relatives had twice the breast cancer death rate of white women in the highest quartile (RR = 2.1; 95% CI = 1.1-4.4). Notably, both black and white women reporting few sources of emotional support had a higher death rate from their disease during the 5-year period of follow-up (RR = 1.8; 95% CI = 1.3-2.5). This association was stronger for black women (RR = 1.9; 95% CI = 1.3-3.0) and for women presenting with late stage disease (RR = 1.9; 95% CI = 1.3-2.7). Although the absence of close ties was associated with late diagnosis among black women, and was associated with poorer survival among white women, the absence of sources of emotional support had a consistent effect on both groups of women. These data suggest that functional (''perceived emotional support'') rather than structural (''social network'') measures of social relationships may be important in influencing disease prognosis.
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Journal Article
1994
alameda county
Austin D F
Blacklow R S
Boyd P T
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
Chen V W
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Edwards B K
Environmental & Occupational Health
Follow-up
Greenberg R S
Health
Heart disease
Jackson J S
Journal Article
life stress
men born
Mortality
NEOMED College of Medicine
networks
oncology
predictors
Public
Reynolds P
Support