Trends in breast cancer by race and ethnicity

A Ghafoor, A Jemal, E Ward… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, the American Cancer Society (ACS) describes trends in incidence, mortality,
and survival rates of female breast cancer in the United States by race and ethnicity. It also …

Trends in breast cancer by race and ethnicity: update 2006

C Smigal, A Jemal, E Ward… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, the American Cancer Society (ACS) provides estimates of new breast cancer
cases and deaths in 2006 and describes trends in incidence, mortality, and survival for …

Racial differences in survival of female breast cancer in the Detroit metropolitan area

MS Simon, RK Severson - … International Journal of the …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract BACKGROUND In the United States, breast cancer survival is worse among African‐
American women compared with white women. This difference in survival is likely due to …

Ethnicity and breast cancer: factors influencing differences in incidence and outcome

RT Chlebowski, Z Chen, GL Anderson… - Journal of the …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background: The lower breast cancer incidence in minority women and the higher breast
cancer mortality in African American women than in white women are largely unexplained …

Survival differences in breast cancer among racial/ethnic groups: a population-based study.

A Boyer-Chammard, TH Taylor… - Cancer detection and …, 1999 - europepmc.org
In women, breast cancer is the most frequent solid tumor and the second leading cause of
cancer death. Differences in survival of breast cancer have been noted among racial/ethnic …

Breast cancer statistics, 2011

C DeSantis, R Siegel, P Bandi… - CA: a cancer journal for …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, the American Cancer Society provides an overview of female breast cancer
statistics in the United States, including trends in incidence, mortality, survival, and …

Racial differences in breast carcinoma survival

SA Joslyn, MM West - Cancer, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Survival after breast carcinoma diagnosis is significantly worse among
African American women for reasons unknown. The purpose of this study was to update …

Race and differences in breast cancer survival in a managed care population

MU Yood, CC Johnson, A Blount… - Journal of the …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND: African-American women with breast cancer have poorer survival than
European-American women. After adjustment for socioeconomic variables, survival …

Racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer rates by age: NAACCR Breast Cancer Project

SA Joslyn, ML Foote, K Nasseri, SS Coughlin… - Breast Cancer Research …, 2005 - Springer
Objective. To examine age-specific rates of breast cancer incidence among racial and ethnic
groups in the United States. Methods. Subjects were 363,801 women diagnosed with …

[HTML][HTML] Breast cancer trends of black women compared with white women

KC Chu, RE Tarone… - Archives of Family …, 1999 - triggered.edina.clockss.org
Objective To investigate why breast cancer mortality rates have decreased in the 1990s for
white women but not for black women. Design Racial differences in breast cancer incidence …