Cancer treatment and survivorship statistics, 2014

CE DeSantis, CC Lin, AB Mariotto… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The number of cancer survivors continues to increase due to the aging and growth of the
population and improvements in early detection and treatment. In order for the public health …

Triple-negative breast cancer in African-American women: disparities versus biology

EC Dietze, C Sistrunk, G Miranda-Carboni… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive breast cancer subtype that
disproportionately affects BRCA1 mutation carriers and young women of African origin …

Cancer treatment and survivorship statistics, 2016

KD Miller, RL Siegel, CC Lin… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The number of cancer survivors continues to increase because of both advances in early
detection and treatment and the aging and growth of the population. For the public health …

Breast cancer statistics, 2015: Convergence of incidence rates between black and white women

CE DeSantis, SA Fedewa… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, the American Cancer Society provides an overview of female breast cancer
statistics in the United States, including data on incidence, mortality, survival, and screening …

Cancer statistics for African Americans, 2016: Progress and opportunities in reducing racial disparities

CE DeSantis, RL Siegel, AG Sauer… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, the American Cancer Society provides the estimated number of new cancer
cases and deaths for blacks in the United States and the most recent data on cancer …

Differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis and cancer-specific survival by race and ethnicity in the United States

J Iqbal, O Ginsburg, PA Rochon, P Sun, SA Narod - Jama, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Women with early-stage breast cancers are expected to have excellent survival
rates. It is important to identify factors that predict diagnosis of early-stage breast cancers …

Racial disparity and triple-negative breast cancer in African-American women: a multifaceted affair between obesity, biology, and socioeconomic determinants

S Siddharth, D Sharma - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a molecularly heterogeneous disease whose
incidence is disproportionately higher in African American (AA) women compared to …

Health disparities and cancer: racial disparities in cancer mortality in the United States, 2000–2010

EB O'Keefe, JP Meltzer, TN Bethea - Frontiers in public health, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Declining cancer incidence and mortality rates in the United States (US) have continued
through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Reductions in tobacco use, greater uptake …

Impact of breast cancer subtypes on prognosis of women with operable invasive breast cancer: a population-based study using SEER database

KT Hwang, J Kim, J Jung, JH Chang, YJ Chai… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: To determine the prognostic roles of breast cancer subtypes in females with
operable invasive breast cancer. Experimental Design: Data of 321,958 patients from …

Breast Tumor Microenvironment in Black Women: A Distinct Signature of CD8+ T-Cell Exhaustion

S Yao, TYD Cheng, A Elkhanany, L Yan… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Blacks tend to have a stronger inflammatory immune response than Whites. We
hypothesized that racial differences in host immunity also manifest in the tumor …