Purpose Underuse of adjuvant therapy is a potentially important and remediable
explanation for the inferior survival of minority women with breast cancer. We sought to …

Chemotherapy improves breast cancer survival but is underused more often in black than in
white women. We examined associations between patient–physician relationships and …

Abstract BACKGROUND. African Americans (AA) have higher mortality from breast cancer
compared with white Americans (WA). Studies using population‐based cancer registries …

PURPOSE: We sought to examine tumor subtype, stage at diagnosis, time to surgery (TTS),
and overall survival (OS) among Hispanic patients of different races and among Hispanic …

Introduction Black women appear to have worse outcome after diagnosis and treatment of
breast cancer. It is still unclear if this is because Black race is more often associated with …

Background Treatment delays affect breast cancer survival and constitute poor‐quality care.
Black patients experience more treatment delay, but the relationship of geography to these …

Importance Black women in the United States have higher breast cancer (BC) mortality rates
than White women. The combined role of multiple factors, including body mass index (BMI) …

Importance Declining treatment negatively affects health outcomes among patients with
cancer. Limited research has investigated national trends of and factors associated with …

Purpose Breast cancer outcomes are worse among black women and women of lower
socioeconomic status. The purpose of this study was to investigate racial and social …

Purpose Differences in tumor biology, genomic architecture, and health care delivery
patterns contribute to the breast cancer mortality gap between White and Black patients in …