Cancer Mortality in Louisiana's Correctional System, 2015-2021

Totadri Dhimal; Paula Cupertino; Zijing Cheng; Erika E Ramsdale; Bailey K Hilty Chu; Brian J Kaplan; Andrea Armstrong; Xueya Cai; Yue Li; Fergal J Fleming; Anthony Loria

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.46411

Cancer Mortality in Louisiana's Correctional System, 2015-2021

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Nov 4;7(11):e2446411. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.46411.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Surgical Health Outcomes & Reaching for Equity, Department of Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York.
² Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York.
³ James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York.
⁴ Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York.
⁵ Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana.
⁶ Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
⁷ Division of Health Policy and Outcomes Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York.

PMID: 39565627
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.46411

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Plain language summary

This cohort study evaluates cancer-specific mortality data about incarcerated individuals in Louisiana to examine why gaps in cause-specific data exist for this group.