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Housing Status Changes Are Associated With Cancer Outcomes Among US Veterans.
Housing Status Changes Are Associated With Cancer Outcomes Among US Veterans. Health affairs (Project Hope) Decker, H. C., Graham, L. A., Titan, A., Hawn, M. T., Kanzaria, H. K., Wick, E., Kushel, M. B. 2024; 43 (2): 234-241Abstract
Cancer is a leading cause of death in older unhoused adults. We assessed whether being unhoused, gaining housing, or losing housing in the year after cancer diagnosis is associated with poorer survival compared with being continuously housed. We examined all-cause survival in more than 100,000 veterans diagnosed with lung, colorectal, and breast cancer during the period 2011-20. Five percent were unhoused at the time of diagnosis, of whom 21 percent gained housing over the next year; 1 percent of veterans housed at the time of diagnosis lost housing. Continuously unhoused veterans and veterans who lost their housing had poorer survival after lung and colorectal cancer diagnosis compared with those who were continuously housed. There was no survival difference between veterans who gained housing after diagnosis and veterans who were continuously housed. These findings support policies to prevent and end homelessness in people after cancer diagnosis, to improve health outcomes.
View details for DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01003
View details for PubMedID 38315919