The associations between household food insecurity and cancer: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies among adults.
Improving food security may help patients overcome screening delays and treatment barriers, reducing cancer health disparities.
systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies among adults. HFI can act as a barrier to cancer screening, treatment adherence, and survivorship, thereby contributing to inequities in cancer outcomes.
What the study was
- Study design
- Systematic review and meta-analysis
- Population
- Adult patients
- Sample size
- 1135888
- Category
- Early Detection
- Maturity
- Potentially Practice-Changing
- Journal
- Soc Sci Med
Why it surfaced
Score 7/10 meets STANDARD threshold for this systematic review and meta-analysis on Early cancer detection.
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