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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2404
igaa057.2404
Abstracts
Session 6110 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Honoring Older Latino Immigrants’ Perspectives on Cancer: Informing the Future
Carrion Iraida 1 Neelamegam Malinee 2 Roberts Jane 3 1 
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States
2 
Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
3 
University of South Florida, Sarasota, Florida, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”688 688
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Cancer is the leading cause of death among Latinos in the U.S. Approximately 32.2% of Latinas and 44.1% of Latinos aged 60 years or older have a lifetime probability of developing invasive cancer (ACS, 2018), with lower survival rates for most cancers even when allowing for age and stage distribution. There is some evidence that older Latino/Latina immigrants lack knowledge about cancer treatment options and are often adversely impacted by healthcare inequities regarding cancer treatment and care options. This study compared the cancer beliefs and attitudes of 58 Latinos and 110 Latinas with a mean age of 67.9 years who reside in the Greater Tampa Bay area. Recruitment occurred in community-based settings, and interviews were conducted in Spanish and transcribed into English. The qualitative methods of constant comparison and thematic analysis will be presented along with the results related to diagnosis, medical decisions, finances, death, and family.