Racial disparities in treatment and survival among women with early-stage breast cancer

D Hershman, R McBride, JS Jacobson… - Journal of Clinical …, 2005 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Black women with breast cancer are known to have poorer survival than white
women. Suboptimal treatment may compromise the survival benefits of adjuvant …

Impact of timing of adjuvant chemotherapy initiation and completion after surgery on racial disparities in survival among women with breast cancer

ZZ Nurgalieva, L Franzini, RO Morgan, SW Vernon… - Medical Oncology, 2013 - Springer
While large differences by race/ethnicity in breast cancer survival are well established, it is
unknown whether differences in quality of chemotherapy delivered explain the racial/ethnic …

Race and delays in breast cancer treatment across the care continuum in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study

KE Reeder‐Hayes, SE Mayer, AF Olshan… - Cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background After controlling for baseline disease factors, researchers have found that black
women have worse breast cancer survival, and this suggests that treatment differences may …

Racial differences in treatment and survival from early‐stage breast carcinoma

SA Joslyn - Cancer, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND African‐American women have a significantly worse prognosis from breast
carcinoma compared with white women, even when the stage at diagnosis is equivalent …

Ethnic neutropenia and treatment delay in African American women undergoing chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer

D Hershman, M Weinberg, Z Rosner… - Journal of the …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Disparities in breast cancer survival have been observed between African American and
white women. There are also known differences in mean baseline white blood cell (WBC) …

Racial disparities in chemotherapy administration for early-stage breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

AK Green, EM Aviki, K Matsoukas, S Patil… - Breast cancer research …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to measure the extent to
which race is associated with delayed initiation or receipt of inadequate chemotherapy …

Racial disparities in breast carcinoma survival rates Separating factors that affect diagnosis from factors that affect treatment

KC Chu, CA Lamar, HP Freeman - … International Journal of the …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Black females have lower breast carcinoma survival rates compared with
white females. One possible reason is that black females have more advanced‐stage breast …

Race and ethnicity are associated with delays in breast cancer treatment (2003–2006)

SA Fedewa, SB Edge, AK Stewart… - Journal of health care …, 2011 - muse.jhu.edu
Access to timely treatment may be one contributing factor to survival differences by
race/ethnicity among breast cancer patients. In this study, we examined the relationship …

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in adjuvant chemotherapy for older women with lymph node‐positive, operable breast cancer

A Bhargava, XL Du - Cancer, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: Consistent with findings from clinical trials, a recent population‐based
study indicated that adjuvant chemotherapy for lymph node‐positive, operable breast cancer …

Racial disparities in treatment and survival of women with stage I–III breast cancer at a large academic medical center in metropolitan Detroit

W Du, MS Simon - Breast cancer research and treatment, 2005 - Springer
African-American (AA) women with breast cancer have higher mortality rates than
Caucasian woman, and some studies have suggested that this disparity may be partly …