{"doi":"10.1371/journal.pone.0274703","title":"Incarceration status and cancer mortality: A population-based study","abstract":"BACKGROUND: The complex relationship between incarceration and cancer survival has not been thoroughly evaluated. We assessed whether cancer diagnosis during incarceration or the immediate post-release period is associated with higher rates of mortality compared with those never incarcerated. METHODS: We conducted a population-based study using a statewide linkage of tumor registry and correctional system movement data for Connecticut adult residents diagnosed with invasive cancer from 2005 through 2016. The independent variable was place of cancer diagnosis: during incarceration, within 12 months post-release, and never incarcerated. The dependent variables were five-year cancer-related and overall survival rates. RESULTS: Of the 216,540 adults diagnosed with invasive cancer during the study period, 239 (0.11%) people were diagnosed during incarceration, 479 (0.22%) within 12 months following release, and the remaining were never incarcerated. After accounting for demographics and cancer characteristics, including stage of diagnosis, the risk for cancer-related death at five years was significantly higher among those diagnosed while incarcerated (AHR = 1.39, 95% CI = 1.12-1.73) and those recently released (AHR = 1.82, 95% CI = 1.57-2.10) compared to the never-incarcerated group. The risk for all-cause mortality was also higher for those diagnosed with cancer while incarcerated (AHR = 1.92, 95% CI = 1.63-2.26) and those recently released (AHR = 2.18, 95% CI = 1.94-2.45). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: There is a higher risk of cancer mortality among individuals diagnosed with cancer during incarceration and in the first-year post-release, which is not fully explained by stage of diagnosis. Cancer prevention and treatment efforts should target people who experience incarceration and identify why incarceration is associated with worse outcomes.","journal":"PLoS ONE","year":2022,"id":244917,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":26,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.8667,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":582351,"name":"Jenerius A. Aminawung","orcid":"0000-0002-7014-6801","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":419958,"name":"Hsiu‐Ju Lin","orcid":"0000-0002-6633-8632","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":327611,"name":"Lou Gonsalves","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":661835,"name":"Lisa B. Puglisi","orcid":"0000-0001-9517-8343","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":678819,"name":"Sophia Mun","orcid":"0000-0002-9972-9824","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":734372,"name":"Colleen Gallagher","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":627015,"name":"Pamela R. Soulos","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":237714,"name":"Cary P. Gross","orcid":"0000-0002-4974-935X","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":327963,"name":"Emily A. Wang","orcid":"0000-0003-1403-6891","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":552401,"name":"Oluwadamilola T. Oladeru","orcid":"0000-0002-3476-7790","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":27,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:23:30.364338Z","pmid":"36112653","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}