New Publication in BMC Cancer

I co-first authored an article in BMC Cancer entitled “Neighborhood-Level Deprivation and Survival in Lung Cancer” co-led with Dr. Kathleen Kennedy and Dr. Ignacio Jusue-Torres. We assessed the potential associations of neighborhood deprivation, DNA methylation, and lung cancer mortality in a multicenter retrospective cohort study. We found HOXA7 and DNA methylation were significantly correlated with neighborhood deprivation and participants residing in high-deprivation neighborhoods had a significantly shorter survival than those residing in low-deprivation neighborhoods. My largest contributions to the study was creating the code companion for the manuscript and designing, computing, and performing of the neighborhood deprivation index linkages to participant locations using the ndi package in R that I previously published.