Fall-related injuries in older adult cancer survivors: a decade of racial disparities
Asmaa Namoos, Nicholas Thomson, Vanessa Sheppard, Michel Aboutanos · 2026
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Asmaa Namoos led a 2026 retrospective study, one looking back at health records, on fall-related injuries in older cancer survivors. Cancer treatment can cause nerve damage, weakness, bone loss, and tiredness, all of which may raise the risk of a harmful fall.
Using records from a Virginia health system, the team studied 19,370 survivors aged 65 and older from 2013 to 2023. Seven percent had a new documented fall injury, and eight percent had any such injury in the period. Black survivors showed a higher documented risk than White survivors, at 4.915 percent versus 4.048 percent, a gap the authors treat as a racial disparity needing attention.
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| CREATOR | Asmaa Namoos, Nicholas Thomson, Vanessa Sheppard, Michel Aboutanos |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27586 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |