Various social determinants of health (SDOH) metrics, also known as area-based social measures, are utilized to evaluate access to cancer care and to explain disparities in outcomes. Little prior work has compared the validity of these various geographic metrics. We reviewed all patients surgically treated for PNETs (2006-2022) at a single comprehensive cancer center. We collected patient demographics including self-reported race (White or Black), billing addresses, tumor characteristics and area-based social measures. We then compared between- and within-race differences to understand accuracy across different geographic levels. One hundred seventy-nine patients were included
49 (27%) Black, a median age of 60.3 years and 86 (48%) females. At the block group/census tract level, compared to White patients, Black patients lived in neighborhoods with lower educational attainment, lower income, higher rates of uninsurance, higher overall social vulnerability index (SVI), and higher area deprivation index (ADI) (all