Abstract IA005: Persistent poverty and cancer disparities

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Abstract This session will highlight the challenges that persistent poverty poses for achieving health equity. In working with the US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, the NCI defines persistent poverty areas, wherein 20% or more of the population at the census tract level is below the federal poverty line based on the 1990, and 2000 decennial censuses and 2007-11 and 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Most of our research and interventions are not focused in these areas and thus do not consider these contextual factors associated with persistent poverty in addressing cancer disparities. The three speakers will highlight the challenges and opportunities to promote research and training with communities in focusing their research on persistent poverty areas. The speakers and titles of the talks are: NCI’s persistent poverty research agenda Amy Kennedy, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland HCV screening in border areas of persistent poverty Bertha E. Flores, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas Relationship between measures of social determinants of health at the census tract level and cancer incidence and survival: An analysis of persistent poverty, socioeconomic index, and measures of rurality Kathy Cronin, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Citation Format: Shobha Srinivasan. Persistent poverty and cancer disparities [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2023 Sep 29-Oct 2;Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2023;32(12 Suppl):Abstract nr IA005.