Health disparities across the breast cancer continuum

KE Reeder-Hayes, SB Wheeler, DK Mayer - Seminars in oncology nursing, 2015 - Elsevier
Objectives To provide a brief overview of disparities across the spectrum of breast cancer
incidence, treatment, and long-term care during the survivorship period. Data Sources …

Racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer mortality: are we doing enough to address the root causes?

DJ Blackman, CM Masi - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2006 - ascopubs.org
Breast cancer is the most common noncutaneous malignancy and the second most lethal
form of cancer among women in the United States. Mortality from breast cancer has declined …

A perfect storm: how tumor biology, genomics, and health care delivery patterns collide to create a racial survival disparity in breast cancer and proposed interventions …

B Daly, OI Olopade - CA: a cancer journal for clinicians, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
It is well known that there is a significant racial divide in breast cancer incidence and
mortality rates. African American women are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer …

Disparities in survival after female breast cancer diagnosis: a population-based study

SL Tannenbaum, T Koru-Sengul, F Miao… - Cancer causes & …, 2013 - Springer
Background Despite advances in treatment and increased screening, female breast cancer
survival is affected by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES). The purpose of this …

Breast cancer disparities at home and abroad: a review of the challenges and opportunities for system-level change

KE Reeder-Hayes, BO Anderson - Clinical Cancer Research, 2017 - AACR
Sizeable disparities exist in breast cancer outcomes, both between Black and White patients
in the United States, and between patients in the United States and other high-income …

Factors that contributed to black-white disparities in survival among nonelderly women with breast cancer between 2004 and 2013

A Jemal, AS Robbins, CC Lin, WD Flanders… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Purpose To estimate the contribution of differences in demographics, comorbidity,
insurance, tumor characteristics, and treatment to the overall mortality disparity between …

Breast cancer racial disparities: unanswered questions

FO Ademuyiwa, SB Edge, DO Erwin, H Orom… - Cancer research, 2011 - AACR
Breast cancer is the most common noncutaneous cancer diagnosed in women in the United
States and is second only to lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer-related mortality …

Disparities across the breast cancer continuum

JA Bigby, MD Holmes - Cancer Causes & Control, 2005 - Springer
Objective: We performed a structured review of the literature to identify areas of greater and
lesser knowledge of the nature of disparities across the breast cancer continuum from risk …

Impact of treatment and socioeconomic status on racial disparities in survival among older women with breast cancer

XL Du, S Fang, TE Meyer - American journal of clinical oncology, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To examine racial/ethnic disparities in mortality and survival in a large nationwide
and population-based cohort of women with breast cancer after simultaneously controlling …

Disparities in breast cancer treatment and outcomes: biological, social, and health system determinants and opportunities for research

SB Wheeler, KE Reeder‐Hayes, LA Carey - The oncologist, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Racial disparities in breast cancer mortality have been widely documented for several
decades and persist despite advances in receipt of mammography across racial groups …