African American (AA) women have a 42% higher breast cancer death rate compared to
white women despite recent advancements in management of the disease. We examined …

Abstract Background Compared to non-Hispanic whites, African-American women tend to
be diagnosed with breast cancer at an earlier age, to have less favorable tumor …

Racial disparities in survival among African American (AA) women in the United States have
been well documented. Breast cancer mortality rates among AA women is higher in …

BACKGROUND: Although much has been done to examine those factors associated with
higher mortality among African American women, there is a paucity of literature that …

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

Purpose To determine the influence of race on breast cancer treatment and on recurrence
and breast cancer specific death. Patients and Methods The study population consisted of …

Background Socioeconomic and treatment factors contribute to diagnosis of early-stage
(local-stage) breast cancer, as well as excess deaths among African American women …

Background Causes of racial disparities in breast cancer survival remain unclear. This study
assesses overall survival (OS) after diagnosis between black and white women and …

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 …

Breast cancer is the second most diagnosed malignancy in American women with a lifetime
occurrence of 1 in 8 women in the United States. There has been a dearth of research …