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 (she was not involved in the research). 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.
But whether housing insecurity specifically is responsible for increasing cancer mortality isn’t yet proven. The issue of housing might simply be “mimicking other factors,” argues Stuart Butler, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. An insecure
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