Exploring the Knowledge Gap: A Scoping Review of Nutrition Insecurity and Related Factors Among Black Cancer Survivors in the United States.

IF 1.5 4区医学 Q4 NUTRITION & DIETETICS

Ecology of Food and Nutrition Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-30 DOI:10.1080/03670244.2026.2692935

A Burton, Z Abdul-Hameed, G Ford, B Rivers, D Rivers

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Abstract

Black people in the United States have the highest death rates for cancer and a lower overall 5-year cancer survival rate than White people. Although current literature demonstrates the importance of diet in cancer survivors' overall health, there is a limited understanding of the relationship between nutrition insecurity and cancer-related outcomes. This review summarizes evidence and knowledge gaps related to nutrition insecurity, food insecurity, neighborhood food environments, and cancer-related outcomes among Black cancer survivors in the United States. A total of 41 articles were reviewed. None of the included studies assessed for nutrition insecurity using a validated measuring tool. The impact of poor diet quality, food insecurity, and the neighborhood environment on cancer-related outcomes is evident, yet these issues continue to be studied in isolation. Establishing nutrition insecurity as a foundational concept will allow for more studies to better address the multi-level issues impacting Black cancer survivors' overall health.

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探索知识差距：美国黑人癌症幸存者营养不安全及相关因素的范围审查。

在美国，黑人的癌症死亡率最高，总体5年癌症存活率低于白人。虽然目前的文献证明了饮食对癌症幸存者整体健康的重要性，但对营养不安全与癌症相关结果之间的关系的理解有限。本综述总结了美国黑人癌症幸存者中与营养不安全、食品不安全、社区食品环境和癌症相关结局相关的证据和知识差距。共审阅了41篇文章。纳入的研究均未使用有效的测量工具评估营养不安全。不良饮食质量、粮食不安全和社区环境对癌症相关结果的影响是显而易见的，但这些问题仍在孤立地进行研究。将营养不安全作为一个基本概念将允许更多的研究，以更好地解决影响黑人癌症幸存者整体健康的多层次问题。

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Ecology of Food and Nutrition 医学-营养学

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3.50

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Ecology of Food and Nutrition is an international journal of food and nutrition in the broadest sense. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of food and nutrition -- ecological, biological, and cultural. Ecology of Food and Nutrition strives to become a forum for disseminating scholarly information on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of the study of food and nutrition. It emphasizes foods and food systems not only in terms of their utilization to satisfy human nutritional needs and health, but also to promote and contest social and cultural identity. The content scope is thus wide -- articles may focus on the relationship between food and nutrition, food taboos and preferences, ecology and political economy of food, the evolution of human nutrition, changes in food habits, food technology and marketing, food and identity, and food sustainability. Additionally, articles focusing on the application of theories and methods to address contemporary food and nutrition problems are encouraged. Questions of the relationship between food/nutrition and culture are as germane to the journal as analyses of the interactions among nutrition and environment, infection and human health.