Food insecurity screening: A missing piece in cancer management

Cancer. 2019 Oct 15;125(20):3494-3501. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32291. Epub 2019 Jul 9.

Authors

Kanishka G Patel¹, Hala T Borno², Hilary K Seligman^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
² Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

PMID: 31287159
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.32291

No abstract available

Keywords: cancer disparities; food insecurity; hunger; neoplasms; socioeconomic factors.

MeSH terms

Early Detection of Cancer*
Food Supply*
Humans
Mass Screening
Neoplasms / epidemiology*
Patients
Socioeconomic Factors
United States
United States Department of Agriculture