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Biological consequences of chronic stress, measured by allostatic load (AL), may contribute to these disparities, but their role in breast cancer prognosis is not well understood.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n To evaluate the association between AL and overall survival among patients with breast cancer and assess the contribution of AL to racial and rural disparities in survival.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>\n This cohort study used data from an institutional electronic health record and cancer registry at the University of Virginia Comprehensive Cancer Center. Participants were women diagnosed with stage I to III breast cancer between 2014 and 2024. Data were analyzed from February 2025 through April 2025.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Exposures<\/jats:title>\n Allostatic load was derived from 14 clinical biomarkers and medication history and categorized as low (score \u22643) or high (score &amp;gt;3).<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>\n The primary outcome was overall survival. Cox proportional hazards models were used to assess the association with overall survival. Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition was performed to assess the extent to which AL explained disparities in survival by race and rurality.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n Among 3069 patients with stage I to III breast cancer followed up for a median (IQR) of 55.4 (30.1-83.3) months (353 Black [11.5%], 2530 White [82.4%], and 178 other race [5.8%]; 1565 aged \u226466 years [51.0%] and 1504 aged &amp;gt;66 years [49.0%]), most individuals were postmenopausal (1523 patients [49.6%]) and married (1766 patients [57.5%]). There was a higher mean (SD) AL score in patients who were older (4.39 [1.68] for ages &amp;gt;66 years vs 3.84 [1.68] for ages \u226466 years), Black (4.54 [1.81] vs 4.07 [1.68] for White patients), rural residents (4.25 [1.72] vs 4.08 [1.70] for urban residents), uninsured (4.35 [1.55]) or on public insurance (eg, 4.33 [1.93] for Medicaid vs 3.70 [1.56] for private insurance), and unemployed (4.14 [1.77]) or retired (4.39 [1.65] vs 3.63 [1.60] for employed) and who reported no alcohol use (4.33 [1.74] vs 3.94 [1.66] for reported use) or a history of tobacco use (4.20 [1.69] vs 4.05 [1.72] for no reported use). High AL score (&amp;gt;3) was associated with an increased risk of mortality (hazard ratios [HRs] ranged from 1.26; 95% CI, 1.04 to 1.54 for model 5 [adjustment for demographics, social economic status, lifestyle factors, and clinical factors] to 1.53; 95% CI, 1.26 to 1.86 for model 1 [crude model]) compared with low AL score (\u22643). Stratified analyses indicated a larger HR in the association between AL score and mortality among rural Black patients (HR per 1-unit increase in AL, 3.33; 95% CI, 1.27-8.77). In decomposition analyses, the total explained portion accounted for \u22120.0708 of the racial disparity, with AL score accounting for \u22120.0100 (95% CI, \u22120.0219 to 0.0018), or 14.2% of the explained portion, while the total explained portion of the geographic disparity was \u22120.0127, with AL score accounting for \u22120.0043 (95% CI, \u22120.0107 to 0.0021), or 34.3% of the explained rural disparity, although estimates were not statistically significant.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>\n In this study, high AL was independently associated with worse overall survival. 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