A need exists to examine racial disparities in the healthcare arena and the impact on
patients with cancer. Despite ongoing efforts to increase equity in primary healthcare …

Background There is extensive interest in understanding how neighborhood socioeconomic
status (nSES) may affect cancer incidence or survival. However, variability regarding items …

National estimates project COVID-19 negatively influenced cancer screening, leading to an
estimated deficit of 3.9 million breast cancer (BC) screenings among US adults. 1, 2 In San …

Notable barriers exist in the delivery of equitable care for all patients with cancers. Social
determinants of health at distal, intermediate, and proximal levels impact cancer care …

Triple negative breast cancers (TNBCs) are molecularly heterogeneous, and the link
between their aggressiveness with African ancestry is not established. We investigated …

How structural racism can kill cancer patients: Black patients with breast cancer and other
malignancies face historical inequities that are ingrained but not inevitable. In this article, the …

The reporting and analysis of population-based cancer statistics in the United States has
traditionally been done for counties. However, counties are not ideal for analysis of cancer …

Background: Women living in disadvantaged neighborhoods present with increased
prevalence rates of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). This study takes a spatiotemporal …

Abstract Purpose of Review Breast cancer incidence and mortality rates are lower in some
Hispanic/Latino subpopulations compared with non-Hispanic White women. However …

Purpose Many studies have demonstrated disparities in breast cancer (BC) incidence and
mortality among Black women. We hypothesized that in Pennsylvania (PA), a large …