[HTML][HTML] Genetic susceptibility to breast cancer

N Mavaddat, AC Antoniou, DF Easton… - Molecular …, 2010 - Elsevier
Genetic and lifestyle/environmental factors are implicated in the aetiology of breast cancer.
This review summarizes the current state of knowledge on rare high penetrance mutations …

Disparities in breast cancer outcomes between Caucasian and African American women: a model for describing the relationship of biological and nonbiological …

DN Danforth Jr - Breast cancer research, 2013 - Springer
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women in the United States but significant
disparities exist for African American women compared to Caucasian women. African …

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 …

Age-specific incidence of breast cancer subtypes: understanding the black–white crossover

CA Clarke, THM Keegan, J Yang… - Journal of the …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background Breast cancer incidence is higher among black women than white women
before age 40 years, but higher among white women than black women after age 40 years …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of clinicopathological features and prognosis in triple-negative and non-triple negative breast cancer

J Qiu, X Xue, C Hu, H Xu, D Kou, R Li, M Li - Journal of cancer, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has attracted more attention both clinically
and experimentally because of its high-risk biological characteristics and lacking of effective …

Hormone receptor status and survival in a population‐based cohort of patients with breast carcinoma

VR Grann, AB Troxel, NJ Zojwalla… - … Journal of the …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to assess hormone receptor status as an
independent predictor of survival in a population‐based cohort of women with breast …

The role of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 in the survival of women with estrogen and progesterone receptor‐negative, invasive breast cancer: The …

M Brown, A Tsodikov, KR Bauer, CA Parise… - Cancer, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Breast cancers that are negative for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone
receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)(triple negative [TN]) …

Racial and ethnic differences in breast cancer survival: how much is explained by screening, tumor severity, biology, treatment, comorbidities, and demographics?

E Curtis, C Quale, D Haggstrom… - … Journal of the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND. The reasons for race/ethnicity (R/E) differences in breast cancer survival
have been difficult to disentangle. METHODS. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results …

Breast cancer in African-American women: differences in tumor biology from European-American women

K Amend, D Hicks, CB Ambrosone - Cancer research, 2006 - AACR
Abstract Disparities exist between African-American and European-American women in the
incidence and nature of breast cancer. African-American women are more often diagnosed …

Association of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and breast cancer subtypes in the National Cancer Data Base (2010–2011)

HM Sineshaw, M Gaudet, EM Ward… - Breast cancer research …, 2014 - Springer
To estimate the odds of breast cancer subtypes in minority populations versus non-Hispanic
(NH) whites stratified by socioeconomic status (SES)[a composite of individual-level SES …